Forecast highlights danger of growth in antimicrobial resistance that could take surgery back to 19th-century mortality rates
As many as 80,000 people could die if there was an outbreak of a drug-resistant infection in Britain, a government forecast has warned.
According to the report, about 200,000 people could fall victim to a bacterial blood infection if there was a widespread outbreak that existing antibiotics could not tackle.
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