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		</div><p>Antimicrobial resistance could soon kill at least 10 million people per year and wipe out humanity “before climate change does”, England’s chief medical officer has warned.</p>
<p>Professor Sally Davies also cautioned the post-Brexit UK against importing meat or fish from countries that “misuse” antibiotics while rearing livestock.</p>
<p>Antibiotics overuse in medicine and agriculture leads to bugs no longer responding to the drugs made to kill them.</p>
<p>If these antibiotics stop working, a minor infection such as a skin wound could prove fatal.</p>
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<p>&mdash; Prof. Dame Sally Davies (@UKAMREnvoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/UKAMREnvoy/status/923107789244977152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Professor Davies, who leaves her post at the end of September after nine years, told Sky News: <em>“We humans are doing it to ourselves, but it could kill us before climate change does.</em></p>
<p><em>“It is a very important area and we are under-investing in sorting it out.</em></p>
<p><em>“Antibiotics underpin modern medicine – you can’t have gut surgery, replacement hips, all sorts of surgery without risking infection.</em></p>
<p><em>“At least 10 million could die every year if we don’t get on top of this.”</em></p>
<p>UK Government data shows that, since 2014, the UK has cut the amount of antibiotics it uses by more than 7% and sales of antibiotics for use in food-producing animals has dropped by 40%.</p>
<p>But the number of drug-resistant bloodstream infections increased by 35% between 2013 and 2017.</p>
<p>Asked about post-Brexit trade deals, she told the broadcaster: “<em>There’s always a balance in a trade relationship between economics and standards, and this Government has given a commitment to translate the European law… and stick to the standards we have, so it should all be all right.”</em></p>
<p>Professor Davies also argued the UK <em>“should not be importing beef or other animals where antibiotics have been misused and growth promotion is a misuse, in my book, because it leads to problems across the world.”</em></p>
<p>Some strains of bugs including tuberculosis, MRSA and Clostridium difficile no longer respond to antibiotics that used to be effective against them.</p>
<p>There has also been a rise in so-called superbugs, which are resistant to not just one antibiotic but several or all of them.</p>
<p>Professor Davies will soon take up a role as special envoy on antimicrobial resistance.</p>
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