WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The World Health Organization has warned about the concern about growing resistance to antibiotic. WHO is now warning that the world is running out of antibiotics.
According to WHO, a growing resistance to drugs that fight infections could 'seriously jeopardize' the progress of modern medicine.
The comments were based on a new report that found serious lack of new drugs in development to combat the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
Health experts consider the that resistance to antimicrobial drugs could lead to bigger threat to mankind than cancer.
Reports suggest that about 700,000 people around the world die annually due to drug-resistant infections including drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV and malaria. Estimates indicate that deaths related to drug-resistant infections could reach 10 million by 2050.
'Antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency that will seriously jeopardize progress in modern medicine,' said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director-general. 'Without more investment in research and development, we will be forced back to a time when people feared common infections and risked their lives from minor surgery.'
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