When Medicines Stop Working

Antimicrobial resistance is not a silent pandemic

By: Shobha Shukla

Antimicrobial resistance kills more than a million people annually and is associated with nearly another 5 million deaths every year, a figure expected to increase by 50 percent over the next 25 years. It threatens the global economy, with an estimated global annual cost of up to US$3.4 trillion by 2030 and with 28 million people pushed…