By 2050, 39 million people will die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria

39 million deaths worldwide by 2050 due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria: this is the terrible calculation made by an international team led by researchers from the universities of Oxford and Washington, to which are added 169 million deaths associated with these same bacteria. A growing threat to global health, which the “inventor” of antibiotics, Alexander Fleming, had predicted since his discovery of penicillin. Because it is a constituent of these very particular products that are anti-infectives: “ When you prescribe a conventional drug, the target is the patient. With antibiotics, the target is a living organism that multiplies very quickly and can adapt »explains Professor Marie-Cécile Ploy, head of the Bacteriology-Virology-Hygiene department at Limoges University Hospital.

For the review The Lancet the authors compiled a large amount of data (mortality, hospital and…