GENEVA (AN) — The United Nations' health agency said on Thursday at least 700,000 people a year die from drug-resistant diseases but there are only 50 antibiotics in the medical research community's pipeline of potential new drugs.
A dearth of private investment and innovation are "undermining efforts to combat drug-resistant infections," the World Health Organization warned in a statement. The annual deaths from drug-resistant diseases include 230,000 just from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
