"Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today"
as per the World Health Organization
Antibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. More than a million people worldwide die because of antibioresistance every year and this number will increase tenfold by 2050.
30 last years
known as the « innovation gap » during which no novel-class antibiotics have been developed
1.27 million
deaths per year worldwide because of multi-resistant bacterial infections (The Lancet, 2022)
10 millions
death per year, predicted in less than 30 years if no new development of non-resistant medicine (World Health Organization)
$20 billion
of actual economic burden in yearly direct costs related to antimicrobial resistance (American Association of Family Physicians)
ESKAPE
six highly virulent and antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens
