Sepsis is an illness that affects nearly 50 million people worldwide each year, with around 11 million deaths attributed to the condition.
In the United States, at least 1.7 million adults in the US develop sepsis annually, and nearly 270,000 die as a result, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. It affects 245,000 people in the UK each year, with around 48,000 deaths, according to the UK Sepsis Trust.
