Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

COVID-19 has already killed 2.9 million people. But health experts I spoke to told me the coming antibiotic resistance pandemic could make the coronavirus look minor in comparison.

Thread on my new report for @MintPressNews:

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Between 2000 and 2015, antibiotic use increased by 77% on developing countries, driven partially by pharma giants offering cash incentives to unlicensed health workers to prescribe them.

Many in the Global South are so poor that they cannot afford a full course of them, thus accelerating the growth of resistant superbugs. The WHO estimates that 10million people will die each year by 2050 from this- almost 4x the number that have died of COVID in the last 12 mnths

Health experts I spoke to said common treatments like cesearean sections, chemotherapy or cosmetic surgery could become life threatening if bacterial infections cannot be treated.

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