Drug resistance likely to kill 400,000 Canadians by 2050, report predicts
CBC News Superbugs are likely to kill nearly 400,000 Canadians and cost the economy about $400 billion in gross domestic product over the next 30 years, warns a landmark report. Story here. A Canstock photo image. PinP: As is too often the case, a big piece of the information puzzle is left out of stories such as this. Antibiotics have been overused almost everywhere in the world for a long time, often to raise animals for food. Among other things, it makes them grow faster and fattens them up to fetch a better price at market time. Yet governments forge ahead, like Manitoba's is doing, to expand the very style of livestock production that spawns such problems. Please read: "In Hogs We Trust." Part 1 . Could the Manitoba government’s return to a deregulated hog industry actually contribute to a world health crisIs?