Drug resistance 'could kill 10 mill

Drug resistance 'could kill 10 million people annually
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), or antibiotic resistance, occurs when microorganisms develop resistance to antimicrobial agents that once had the ability to kill them.
In the United States alone, these so-called superbugs are responsible for more than 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths every year.
Clostridium difficile, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae(CRE), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are among the biggest threats for drug-resistant infections in the U.S. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released their first ever report on AMR, which provided much-needed insight into the global threat of drug-resistant infections.
The report led the WHO to declare that the world is heading toward a "post-antibiotic era," where common infections that have been treatable for decades could kill once again, and it highlighted the need for global collaboration in order to tackle the problem. On the back of the WHO report, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron enrolled Lord O'Neill to conduct a review of AMR and develop a plan to stop the world being "cast back into the dark ages of medicine."
Now, the final recommendations of this global plan have been released, and Lord O'Neill claims that unless the plan is put into action, we may reach a point where AMR causes more deaths than are currently caused by cancer.