Article 6MRH4 Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

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Kat Lay Global health correspondent
from Science | The Guardian on (#6MRH4)

Common infections will kill millions if drug resistance through misuse of antibiotics is not curbed, says England's ex-chief medical officer

The Covid-19 pandemic will look minor" compared with what humanity faces from the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs, Prof Dame Sally Davies, England's former chief medical officer, has warned.

Davies, who is now the UK's special envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), lost her goddaughter two years ago to an infection that could not be treated.

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