2 May 2019 - Take inspiration from the entertainment industry.

A world without antibiotics is horrible to contemplate. They underpin much of modern medicine and are essential for patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, organ transplants or common surgeries such as caesarean sections. Yet the global rise of antimicrobial resistance, exemplified by the spread of Candida auris—the latest infection terrorising hospitals—and super-resistant gonorrhoea, is alarming. Resistance could kill 10 million people a year by 2050, up from 700,000 today. 

This week a UN commission recommended immediate and co-ordinated action to avoid a calamity whose economic cost, the World Bank reckons, could rival that of the financial crisis of 2008-09.

Read The Economist article