Antibiotic resistance in people and animals may push millions into poverty: World Bank
Source: Reuters
Sep 19, 2016 3:11 PM ET
If drug-resistant infections in people and animals are allowed to spread unchecked, some 28 million people will fall into poverty by 2050, and a century of progress in health will be reversed, the World Bank said on Monday.
By 2050, annual global GDP would fall by at least 1.1 per cent, although the loss could be as much as 3.8 per cent the equivalent of the 2008 financial crisis the Bank said in a report released ahead of a high-level meeting on the issue at the United Nations in New York this week.
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"We cannot afford to lose the gains in the last century brought about by the antibiotic era," Tim Evans, the World Bank's senior director for health, nutrition and population, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"By any measure, the cost of inaction on antimicrobial resistance is too great, it needs to be addressed urgently and resolutely," he said
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/antibiotic-resistance-1.3769176
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)so they can prevent you from self-medicating
don't want any of that
it might cost us money
still_one
(92,454 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)It's going to become a basic need if we want to preserve our way of life.