After studying the issues for more than two years, O’Neill and his highly talented team of researchers determined that, left unchecked, in the next thirty-five years antimicrobial resistance could kill 300 million people worldwide and stunt global economic output by $100 trillion. There are no other diseases we currently know of except pandemic influenza that could make that claim. In fact, if the current trend is not altered, antimicrobial resistance could become the world’s single greatest killer, surpassing heart disease or cancer.
