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Study: Drug-Resistant Superbugs 'Could Kill 39M People by 2050'

Study: Drug-Resistant Superbugs ‘could'Could killKill 39m39M peoplePeople by 2050’ amid rising drug resistance'

Above: Jean Lee, a PhD student at Melbourne's Doherty Institute, inspects the superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018. Image copyright: William West/Contributor/AFP via Getty Images

The Facts

  • The Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project found that superbugs — bacterial strains or pathogens that develop resistance to antibiotics — are projected to kill over 39M people by 2050, particularly older people.

  • GRAM found that while deaths of children under five due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) decreased by almost 50% from 1990-2021, deaths for those over 70 increased by 80% over the same period.


The Spin

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