ANTIBIOTIC APOCALYPSE: Harvard Reveals Doomsday Scenario That Could KILL 10 Million a Year

A TERRIFYING video put together by a team of Harvard academics has revealed exactly how antibiotic resistance could end up killing 10 million a year in just three decades.

Antibiotic resistance continues to terrifying medical experts, who are scrambling to find a solution to the killer problem.

A video from the Harvard Medical School has showed the horrifying scale of doomsday phenomenon that could kill 10 million a year by 2050.

Currently, it is estimated that around 50,000 people are already dying each year in Europe and the U.S. from untreatable infections, according to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance.

In the UK alone, at least 12,000 people die from antibiotic-resistant superbugs each year, which is higher than deaths from breast cancer.




The Harvard footage shows the first large-scale glimpse of how deadly bacteria adapt to survive
Superbug resistant to all US antibiotics kills woman

The Harvard footage shows the first large-scale glimpse of how deadly bacteria adapt to survive - and thrive - among higher doses of antibiotics.

The team studied how E-coli adapted to increasingly higher doses of antibiotics when placed in a petri dish.

Over two weeks, the scientists saw how a small group of bacteria became resistant to higher and higher doses of antibiotics.

These resistant bacteria then spawned even more resistant strains.

One of the study’s authors, Roy Kishony, said: “It’s a powerful illustration of how easy it is for bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics.”

If the growing trend of antibiotic resistance continues, then as many as 10 million people could die a year by the middle of the 21st century.




As many as 10 million people could die a year by the middle of the 21st century




Experts put the global cost of handling microbial resistance at £80 trillion
Resistance means we’re being forced to use drugs with significant side effects

Dr Michael Weinbren

On top of this, experts put the global cost of handling microbial resistance at £80 trillion.

Within just three decades, antibiotic resistance could become deadlier than cancer and heart disease.

This comes as recent NHS statistics revealed the increasing use of the medication so toxic that it is only used as the last resort.

Scientists branded this as "utter madness" and warn that this could mean that the “last hope” drug becomes useless in humans within a decade.

Dr Michael Weinbren, a consultant in infectious diseases, said: “Resistance means we’re being forced to use drugs with significant side effects.

“For some patients, you just don’t have a choice anymore."



At least 12,000 people die from antibiotic-resistant superbugs each year

Last year, Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England, described growing drug resistance as an “antibiotic apocalypse”.

She put the growing ineffectiveness of antibiotics around the world as being on the same level as terrorism.

In the 2016 comments, Dame Davies said: “The golden age of antibiotics which the world has taken for granted for well over fifty years has ended.

"It is quite possible—and perhaps even likely—that the recent era of material mortality improvements will give way to many years of material mortality worsening."

She mentioned that this could mean a simple cut would prove fatal, and infections which used to be easily treated, such as tuberculosis and gonorrhea, have already reemerged a serious health threat.

Even those receiving organ transplants might have to rely on their own immune systems to prevent their bodies from rejecting donor organs due to the strength of antibiotic resistance.

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Doctors to be blamed for this!! Prescribing AB without evidence of infection is crime