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Drug resistance deadlier than cancer by 2050: Study
Infections resistant to medicines will kill more people per year than cancer by 2050, and cost the world $100 trillion annually, according to a U.K. government-backed report led by Jim O'Neill, the well-known former Goldman Sachs economist. The wide-ranging study, called the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, was commissioned by the U.K. government earlier this year amid growing concerns about drug-resistant "superbugs", including new strains of E. coli, malaria and tuberculosis.
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Hopefully this means UK wide funding for antibiotic research will increase to at least a good fraction of what cancer research gets.