Averting a $100tn disaster
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Failing to tackle drug resistant infections will lead to 10 million deaths a year and cost up to $100tn by 2050. That's the prediction of the first paper to be published by the O'Neill review of antimicrobial resistance, commissioned by the UK Prime Minister earlier this year (scripintelligence.com, 2 July 2014).