Drug-resistant bacterial infections kill one million people annually – WHO
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Current understanding
Current understanding
The World Health Organization is reported to say drug-resistant bacterial infections kill one million people annually. [1]
The headline attributes the figure to the WHO and presents it as an annual death toll from drug-resistant bacterial infections. [1]
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Impact assessment
10/100
Impact assessment
routine human impact
The score is supported by one ownership group and is not independently corroborated.
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Each dimension is scored separately out of 100.
The strongest evidenced dimension establishes the base score. Separate human-impact dimensions can add a bounded share of the remaining headroom without double-counting the same harm.
1 reported deaths are placed between published calibration anchors, producing a loss component of 10/100.
What the reporting supports
- Reported deaths1 reported death
kill one