Already, drug-resistant diseases cause at least 700,000 deaths worldwide each year, but “if no action is taken,” that figure could increase to 10 million globally per year by 2050, overtaking diabetes, heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death in humans, the report states.
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Greater numbers of older people will require care for chronic diseases and age-related health problems. Deaths from Alzheimer's, hepatitis C and certain cancers are rising. By 2030: Cancer may overtake heart disease as the #1 cause of death, killing 640,000 people each year.
The three leading causes of burden of disease in 2030 are projected to include HIV/AIDS, unipolar depressive disorders, and ischaemic heart disease in the baseline and pessimistic scenarios.
A 2016 review on antimicrobial resistance estimates that by 2050, as many as ten million people could die each year as a result of AMR.
The research, recently published in the medical journal The Lancet, says antibiotic-resistant superbugs cause an estimated 1.2 million deaths a year globally.
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Two decades into the future, “every antibiotic we count on now will be destroyed or significantly impaired by resistance,” says Kevin Outterson, a law professor at Boston University and executive director of CARB-X, a public-private accelerator that supports early-stage antibiotic research.
Antibiotic resistance occurs naturally, but misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals is accelerating the process. A growing number of infections – such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, and salmonellosis – are becoming harder to treat as the antibiotics used to treat them become less effective.
— With too few antibiotics under development to keep up with the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, the world is starting to run out of antibiotics. That also means hospitals will start seeing more patients with infections they can't treat, and more infections that were once easily treated are becoming fatal.
The eight NCD or injury causes in the top ten in 2040 are expected to be ischemic heart disease, stroke, COPD, chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, road injuries, and lung cancer.
Summary. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. The second biggest cause are cancers.
These challenges are COVID-19, inadequate human resources for health, poor health systems financing, conflict and humanitarian crises, mental health, poverty, climate change, the health of children, reproductive health issues, and the infodemic.
The world population is expected to reach 8.5 billion people by 2030. India will overtake China as the most populated country on Earth. Nigeria will overtake the US as the third most populous country in the world. The fastest-growing demographic will be the elderly: 65+ people will hit one billion by 2030.
By 2040, Americans will live longer than they do now. Barely. A health forecasting study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation found American life expectancy will reach 79.8 years by 2040, compared to 78.7 years in 2016.
The results also revealed that the USA is likely to have the lowest life expectancy at birth in 2030 among high-income countries. The nation's average life expectancy at birth of men and women in 2030 (79.5 years and 83.3 years), will be similar to that of middle-income countries like Croatia and Mexico.
Honey is one the oldest known antibiotics, tracing back to ancient times. Egyptians frequently used honey as a natural antibiotic and skin protectant. Honey contains hydrogen peroxide , which may account for some of its antibacterial properties.
Antibiotics were commonly prescribed to patients with COVID-19, even though antibiotics are not effective against viruses like the one that causes COVID-19. Almost 80% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 received an antibiotic from March to October 2020.
Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cells do not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do. The antibiotic penicillin works by keeping a bacterium from building a cell wall.
“If we don't tackle antimicrobial resistance now, by 2050 we could find ourselves facing a new pandemic of sorts with serious drug-resistant infections impacting people on multiple continents," says Martin Fitchet, M.D., Global Head, Global Public Health at Johnson & Johnson.
In a world without effective antibiotics, global life expectancy would drop to approximately 50 years. In a world without effective antibiotics, infectious diseases would again become the major causes of death globally.
The antibiotics that have been brought to market in the past three decades are variations of drugs that have been discovered before. Discovering and developing genuinely new antibiotics is challenging: the science is tricky and the research and development process is time-consuming and expensive, and often fails.
Superbugs threaten all of modern medicine: As they become increasingly common, patients getting routine surgery or care such as cancer treatment risk acquiring an infection that's difficult or impossible to treat.
Disease-causing microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi that are able to dodge antibiotics are especially worrisome in hospital-associated infections (HAIs), which develop in seven out of every 100 patients in high-income countries, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter: Acinetobacter baumannii is the superbug strain of this bacteria and it can be found in soil and water and on the skin. It develops a resistance to antibiotics more quickly than other bacteria and is most common in hospitals.