Something Else To Keep You Up At Night
Not worried about climate change, ebola, or ISIS. Well I’ve got something for you:
The true cost of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be 300 million premature deaths and up to $100 trillion (£64 trillion) lost to the global economy by 2050. This scenario is set out in a new report which looks to a future where drug resistance is not tackled between now and 2050.
Sweet dreams.
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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rg9rts December 17th, 2014 at 02:25
We brought this nightmare down on our own heads..demanding antibiotics for colds(virus) not finishing our prescriptions….stuffing our live stock with them for weight gain….We continue to reap what we have sown.. Bon appetite
rg9rts December 17th, 2014 at 03:25
We brought this nightmare down on our own heads..demanding antibiotics for colds(virus) not finishing our prescriptions….stuffing our live stock with them for weight gain….We continue to reap what we have sown.. Bon appetite
Snick1946 December 17th, 2014 at 10:51
Several times over the past years I have encountered doctors who routinely cram antibiotics into their patients. Question the necessity and they seem stunned. It is a lazy way of doctoring- you don’t have to take time to diagnose just give patient a pill and the bad stuff goes away.
Gindy51 December 19th, 2014 at 07:10
I had to argue with my daughter’s pediatrician to NOT give her antibiotics for a cold. Stupid idiot was this old fart who thought I needed to give my kid something to calm me down, misogynist bastard. He’d be used to dealing with the Mormon moms in Utah that freak at the slightest thing that he thought he was dealing with another worried mommy. Hell no, I just wanted to make sure it was bacterial. It was not but he wanted to shove that crap down my kid anyway. Needless to say I fired his sorry ass.
Snick1946 December 17th, 2014 at 11:51
Several times over the past years I have encountered doctors who routinely cram antibiotics into their patients. Question the necessity and they seem stunned. It is a lazy way of doctoring- you don’t have to take time to diagnose just give patient a pill and the bad stuff goes away.
mea_mark December 17th, 2014 at 11:09
It looks like we might have to get back to the fundamentals and start eating healthy. There are many natural ways to deal with things by just eating the right foods. Time to get our priorities in order. Health needs to be more important than convenience.
mea_mark December 17th, 2014 at 12:09
It looks like we might have to get back to the fundamentals and start eating healthy. There are many natural ways to deal with things by just eating the right foods. Time to get our priorities in order. Health needs to be more important than convenience.