The Medical Plague

The Medical Plague of antibiotic resistance is predicted to kill more than 300 million people by 2050 (1). That’s more people within the next 35 years than the 75 million killed by the Black Plague. Is the Medical Plague set to become the Black Death of the 21st Century?

Beginning in 1999, the coming end of the antibiotic era was discussed behind closed doors in U.S. congressional committee meetings. Testimonies given in those meetings echoed the warnings of Alexander Fleming, the inventor of antibiotics, some 50 years earlier when he stated that misuse of antibiotics could lead to dangerous results (2). …read more