Resistance to antibiotics can cause the death of 1 million people in Europe 2025 – wrote on Monday (20 April), “Le Point”, referring to the report of the European association of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases (ESCMID).
The use of antibiotic therapy, which are becoming less effective, and the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, coming from the south of Europe, could lead “in France until 2025 for the Apocalypse” – reads ESCMID, or organization involved in the working out of the best ways to combat infectious diseases.
ESCMID sent this report before the meeting of the world’s top specialists in infectious diseases, which at the end of the week to be held in Copenhagen – gives “Le Point”.
Every year from 25 thousand. up to 30 thousand. people in Europe die due to antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, and in the coming years this number could increase to 50 thousand. year – the report said.
Throughout the world by 2050, the number of deaths caused by this resistance could reach 10 million; data published by the ESCMID forecasts coincide with a committee of experts appointed by the British government announced in December 2014 year.
Head ESCMID Murat Akinova warns that now the people of Greece, Spain and Italy are exposed to an increasing number of bacteria “resistant to all currently known forms of antibiotics,” and no one knows how the disease will not be caused by to spread and evolve.
According to the reports of experts in Asia, released late last year, due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria will die each year 4.7 million people. The report estimates that Europe will be 390 thousand victims. per year, and in the US – 317 thousand. According to the researchers the most drug-resistant can become: Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli), tuberculosis and malaria.
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