https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/11/14/20963824/drug-resistance-antibiotics-cdc-report

Every 15 minutes, one person in the US dies because of an infection that antibiotics can no longer treat effectively.

Although the report focuses on the US, this is a global crisis: 700,000 people around the world die of drug-resistant diseases each year. And if we don’t make a radical change now, that could rise to 10 million by 2050.

Drug resistance is what happens when we overuse antibiotics in the treatment of humans, animals, and crops. When a new antibiotic is introduced, it can have great, even life-saving results — for a while. But then the bacteria adapt. Gradually, the antibiotic becomes less effective and we’re left with a disease that we don’t know how to treat.