A Bigger Health Threat Than Cancer

In medical care, there are treatments, medications, and therapies to slow down a disease…

Or at least alleviate some of the pain.

But finding a cure is the ultimate goal.

A cure means the disease has been eliminated from the body and you can return to a healthy state of being.

Some of the most watershed cures discovered in the past hundred years have defeated heinous diseases like polio, yellow fever, measles, smallpox, typhoid fever, and many others.

For all its faults, modern medicine has saved hundreds of millions of lives.

But, there’s a nightmare scenario that haunts the dreams of the medical community.

That is, what if the cure stops working?

This is a doomsday scenario

It’s something that would cause complete chaos, panic and millions of deaths…

And could soon be a reality.

In fact, it may be the deadliest threat to our society in centuries.

How could this happen?

By a phenomenon called antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotics are medications used to cure diseases caused by bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance is when your bacteria morph and adapt to these medications — making the (no former) cure ineffective and useless.

According to a study by the CDC, as many as four out of five Americans may be prescribed antibiotics annually.

This staggering number has doctors and scientists worried.

Because antibiotics for some of the most common injuries and infections are already starting to not work as well.

At an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington a few years ago, one of Great Britain’s heads of state, Chancellor George Osborne, warned the world that resistance to antibiotics will become “an even greater threat to mankind than cancer” without global action.

You may be wondering why this was brought up at an IMF meeting.

Well, in addition to the massive health threat, antibiotic resistance will also have an enormous financial impact on every economy in the world.

By 2050, antibiotic resistance could reduce global GDP by up to 3.5% — a cumulative cost of 100 trillion U.S. dollars.

In Chancellor Osborne’s words …

“Unless we take global action, antimicrobial resistance will become an even greater threat to mankind than cancer currently is. It is not just a health problem but an economic one, too. The cost of doing nothing, both in terms of lives lost and money wasted, is too great, and the world needs to come together to agree on a common approach.”

He continued…

“We have to dramatically shift incentives for pharmaceutical companies and others to create a long-term solution to this problem, with new rewards, funded globally, that support the development of new antibiotics and ensure access to antibiotics in the developing world.”

Currently, the number of people who die worldwide from cancer is about 7.6 million.

The number of deaths that could result from antibiotic resistance?

Some estimates predict 10 million a year by 2050. [R]

That’s a horrific number — and an issue that should be at the forefront of medical research.

Right now, the UK is leading the way by offering “market entry rewards.” These will pay a large prize to a pharmaceutical company that gets a new treatment or even a new diagnostic to market that helps in the fight against drug resistance.

Osborne is calling upon the global community to do the same.

Longer term, we will need to find new cures for diseases we already believe to be cured. It will be a monumental task for the medical community, but one that our society desperately needs.

A Bigger Health Threat Than Cancer

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