Antibiotic resistance in people and animals may push millions into poverty: World Bank

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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]

1. Yeah support the medical cartel

so they can prevent you from self-medicating

don't want any of that

it might cost us money

[still_one]

2. Another reason to elect Democrats. Look at what Congress has done with Zika

[ck4829]

3. Some level of universal health care is not just something we should "want"

It's going to become a basic need if we want to preserve our way of life.