Antibiotic resistance — Worldwide/Unknown
CDC officials reported Mon 16 Sep 2013 that at least 2 million Americans fall ill from antimicrobial-resistant bacteria every year and that at least 23 000 die from those infections, putting a hard number on a growing public health threat. It was the 1st time that federal authorities quantified the effects of organisms that many antimicrobials are powerless to fight.
The number of deaths is substantially lower than previous estimates, in part because researchers from the CDC stripped out
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