The rising human and economic cost of the overuse of antibiotics | The Business | ABC News

There are warnings the rampant overuse of antibiotics in animal farming could cost the equivalent of the Global Financial Crisis each year.
Now superannuation giant Hesta, along with unlikely allies - Catholic nuns from Texas - are using shareholder activism to pressure some of world's biggest fast food giants to reduce anti-biotic use in food production.
The World Bank has estimated the rise in anti-microbial resistance could cut more than three per cent off annual global trade within decades through falling production and rising health bills.
Anti-microbial resistance, sometimes known as superbugs, are a threat that the World Health Organisation says killed more than one million people in 2019, and that number is expected to grow.
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