Superbug Threat: A huge threat of superbugs is looming over the world. According to a recently published research, even antibiotics have no effect on this superbug. By the year 2050, it can kill 40 million people.
ShareSuperbug Threat: The world is facing the threat of a superbug. This superbug can kill about 40 million people in the next 25 years. The biggest danger is that even medicines have no effect on this superbug. Researchers say that if this serious problem is not worked upon in time, then the problem can increase a lot. This superbug has been named MR and antibiotics are also not having any effect on the bacteria. Due to this, it is also difficult to treat them. According to research published in the Lancet Journal, between 1990 and 2021, more than one million people have lost their lives due to this superbug.
Due to preventive and control measures in newborns, the infection has reduced by 50 percent. But it is becoming very difficult to treat children who get infected with this superbug. At the same time, due to this superbug, the death of people above 70 years of age has increased by 80 percent. This figure is also between the years 1990 to 2021. According to a Lancet study, deaths due to this superbug have doubled to 130,000 in 2021.
ever-increasing threat
Researchers have said that the risk of death from this superbug is constantly increasing. Based on current trends, direct deaths due to AMR may increase by 67 percent by the year 2050. Research has shown that AMR will have directly affected 39 million people in the next quarter century. In this way, a total of 169 million deaths will have occurred. Although there may be some reduction in this, but the condition for this is that necessary steps will have to be taken to prevent dangerous infections. If proper work is done in this direction, then 92 million lives can be saved by 2050.
Mohsin Nagvi, co-author of the research, said that AMR has long been a threat to the world’s health. Now this threat is increasing. Researchers will reach this conclusion after studying 22 pathogens, 84 combinations of drugs and pathogens, and 11 infectious syndromes such as meningitis. It includes personal records of 520 million people in 204 countries and regions.
