Posted on 12/10/2014 11:24:12 PM PST by blam
Kate Kelland, Reuters
December 10, 2014
LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Drug-resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people a year and cost up to $100 trillion by 2050 if their rampant global spread is not halted, according to a British government-commissioned review.
Such infections already kill hundreds of thousands of people a year and the trend is growing, the review said, adding: "The importance of effective antimicrobial drugs cannot be overplayed."
Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill, who led the work, noted that in Europe and the United States alone around 50,000 people currently die each year from infections caused by superbug forms of bacteria such as E.coli.
"Unless something is done by 2050, that number could become 10 million people losing their lives each year from then onwards," he told a briefing in London.
Antimicrobials are a class of drugs that includes antibiotics, antivirals, antiparasitics and antifungals.
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I thought people were concerned about overpopulation? This should help alleviate the problem.
Yes, and everyone needs to buy my product right now.
Because unless the whole world population buys my product, right now, there will be terrible diseases that will cost $60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.45.
See how accurate that calculation was ? Right down to the last 45 cents.
I’ve studied this with my experts. It’s undeniably true.
Oh, and I’m forming a PieterCasparzen United Nacionnnnns(tm). All national governments should enroll right now, for better governance !
It is unfortunate that real people are actually dying from disease, because we have made our committments to bankrupt ourselves to fight fictional climate change, which is killing no one. Priorities.
Leftists should stand in line to catch it. They could contribute to depopulation which is just what they advocate.
The problem here is that we’re in a race between our ability to develop more efficient antimicrobial drugs and the microbes’ ability to evolve resistance to them.
In the long run, put your money on the germs.
Them superbugs just loves them some antibiotics.
It’s all because the greedy drug companies are making too much profit. Let’s fix them, and take away ALL their profits. That’ll sure work.
"Yeah, come on up in heah, penna! Got sumpin' fo' yo' ass!" - Richard Pryor
“(Problem with) vaccine-induced immunity is that it cannot be passed from mother to infant.”
Long article but worth the read.
“In the long run, put your money on the germs”
In the long run put your money on colloidal silver, oil of oregano, food grade hydrogen peroxide and MMS. Oh wait they can’t be patented and sold by Merck or Smith Kline Glaxo for billions. Never mind.
Common sense?
My friend has copper on all his kitchen counter tops.
( That kitchen is worth about $100k)
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