Superbugs are slowly taking over our world. Unless we take action, common infections could turn into unstoppable killers. Some experts claim that drug-resistant bacteria may end up being deadlier than cancer when all antibiotics start to fail. Each year, 23,000 Americans die from infections caused by superbugs. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the estimated global annual mortality rate is 700,000.
If this trend continues, by 2050, long forgotten diseases will strike back in full force, and an estimated 10 million people worldwide will die each year. A recent study, published by the District of Columbia Hospital Association (DCHA), showed that drug-resistant superbugs are very present in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Of the patients tested, 5.1 percent were infected with the deadly, drug-resistant superbug carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE). READ MORE
What about people who rarely take antibiotics? It seems that the reason people are dying from common conditions is that their bodies have built up an immunity from taking so many antibiotics. I remember back in the late 1970s and 80s doctors prescribed antibiotics almost like candy (figure of speech). Hopefully medical science will come up with a ‘super antibiotic’ that will different from any other class of what is out right now.