🦠 Tens of millions of people will die at the hands of mysterious “superbugs” by 2050, according to a study published this week.
🗣 The vast majority of the tens of millions of victims will be elderly, reflecting the results of the Covid pandemic, which has killed almost exclusively the elderly and infirm.
🗣 The study, published in The Lancet, was conducted by the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) project, which was established in 2017 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with the Wellcome Trust.
🗣 Bill Gates' astonishing predictions of a significant population decline have attracted increasing attention from researchers in recent years.
🗣 Gates-funded researchers used data from 204 countries and territories to create mortality estimates for the period 1990 to 2021 and projections through 2050.
🗣 Dr Tomislav Mestrovic, associate professor at the University of the North in Croatia and associate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said superbugs could wipe out huge numbers of elderly people in densely populated areas of the world.
“About three-quarters of AMR [antimicrobial resistance] cases are associated with hospital-acquired infections, for example, and the rapidly ageing population also requires increased hospital care,” he said.
“For example, you put in an IV, it gets infected, bacteria gets into the blood that are likely to be more resistant,” he said.
🗣 The study predicts that the greatest number of future deaths will occur in South Asian countries, including large population centres in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
🗣 This month, world leaders are gathering in New York to discuss the superbug problem during the UN General Assembly.
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