Wednesday 23 May 2018

Government pledges more than£30m to fight superbugs

Government pledges more than£30m to fight superbugs The UK government has given the fight against deadly superbugs a boost with a pledge of £31m for the development of new drugs and diagnostics.

New antibiotics are seen as vital in the battle to curb the rise in drug resistant infections, thought to be linked to around 700,000 deaths around the world every year, including 5,000 in the UK alone.

A report on the growing global threat of antibiotic resistance by former Goldman Sachs boss, Lord O'Neill, warned that, if left unchecked, superbugs could kill 10m people around the world by 2050. The Daily Telegraph

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