![]() His plan is to turn the very surfaces that many of these pathogens use to spread from person to person into weapons against them. He is among those looking for new ways to tackle antimicrobial resistance. It means the illnesses they cause are getting harder to treat.Īs Larrouy-Maumus, an infectious disease researcher at Imperial College London in the UK, warns, “If we do nothing, 10 million people per year will die.” At the same time, other disease-causing organisms – fungi, viruses and parasites – are also developing resistance to the drugs we use to tackle them almost as quickly as we can make new ones. Over the past decade or so, the list of medicines we can use against harmful bacteria has been dwindling. ![]() It is the potential toll facing the world as disease-causing microbes develop resistance to our best defence against them – antibiotics.Ĭurrently, 700,000 people die each year of drug-resistant diseases. It’s an unfathomable figure, but one that Gerald Larrouy-Maumus mentions often. ![]()
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