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Resistant bugs killed thousands in one year
An expert panel report from the CCA (Council of Canadian Academies), When Antibiotics Fail, found that in 2018 about 26% of infections in Canada resisted the drugs normally used to treat them, and that more than 14,000 deaths that year were linked to resistant infections, 5,400 of them caused directly by the resistance. Infectious disease doctors lead the fight to keep antibiotics working.