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World Service,5 mins

Superbugs could kill 'every three seconds' by 2050

World Update

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The global review (Review on Antimicrobial Resistance) sets out a plan for preventing medicine "being cast back into the dark ages" that requires billions of dollars of investment. It also calls for a revolution in the way antibiotics are used and a massive campaign to educate people. Dan Damon asked the review's head, Lord Jim O'Neill, what was the most frightening aspect of what he had discovered? (Picture: Image of microbes Credit: Science Photo Library)

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