Why humans are losing the race against superbugs
A new report in The Lancet finds that in 2019, antibiotic resistant bacteria killed 1.2 million people — more than were killed by malaria or HIV/AIDS. The problem is mounting in lower income nations.
Drug-resistant bacteria --also known as superbugs â are on the rise globally, and they're now killing more people each year than either HIV/AIDS or malaria. And low- and middle-income countries are being hit the hardest by the rise in antibiotic resistant infections.
"That resistance out there is actually now one of the leading causes of death in the world," says Chris Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Murray is one of the authors of the new , published in the medical journal , that finds that in 2019 drug resistant
