United States: New research says more than almost 10 million people will lose their lives each year from antibiotic resistant infections in the next 25 years without measures being put in place to address this growing health concern.
As reported by HealthDay, It is estimated that the number of people dying from antibiotic-resistant bacteria will rise up to 8 by 2020. 2 million people yearly by the year 2050 a figure that is 75% higher than the current approximation of 4. 747 new cases a day or 7 million a year, researchers said on September 16, 2019, in Lancet journal.
But by 2050, resistant infections could contribute to 8 million deaths annually, either by being the underlying direct cause or from conditions compounded by the infection, Dr Stein Emil Vollset of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said.
“To avoid this from becoming a deadly reality we need new interventions to reduce the risk of severe infection through vaccines, new drugs, improving healthcare, better access to existing antibiotics and knowledge on how to use the antibiotics we have,” Vollset said in a journal news release.
In total, more than For the study, researchers looked at deaths in 204 countries and territories of 22 germs and 11 infectious syndromes such as meningitis, sepsis and other severe infection.
The team employed computer-based design to forecast change in deaths fully and partly associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
These resistant germs could directly be involved in an estimated, 1million deaths around the world. 842 billion in 2022, inching to $9 million in 2050, a rise of nearly 70% according to the researchers.
In retrospect, it was calculated that the number of these germs related deaths reduced more than 50 percent in children 5 years or younger between the years 1990 and 2021.
A report which was prepared by researchers revealed that more than a million people could die as a result of direct antibiotic-resistant infections in the next quarter of a century. 337 further million deaths would be related to these superbugs.
“These findings point out that antimicrobial resistance has been a major cause of death in the global health arena for many years and it is rising,” said Dr Mohsen Naghavi the team leader of antimicrobial resistance research at the Institute of Health Metrics with the University of Washington. Also the understanding how the trends in the AMR deaths have changed over time and how they are likely to shift in the future is vital to make the informed decisions to help save the lives said Naghavi.
Experts tracked deaths in 204 countries and the territories related to 22 germs and 11 infectious syndromes like meningitis, sepsis and other very serious infections.