A Tyneside expert has played a leading role in a UN report on reducing the critical threat from superbugs.
The Bracing for Superbugs report warns that curbing pollution human, animal and other wastes is essential to reduce the threat from superbugs, with evidence that the environment plays a key part in the development, transmission and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
The report forecasts that up to 10m deaths a year could happen due to strains of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance is considered one of the top global public health dangers, and the report on its dangers is co-authored by Newcastle University’s Professor David Graham.
