article_snippet: The spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis may result in 75 million deaths by 2050, experts have declared.
article_snippet: The spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis could also cost the global economy a cumulative $16.7 trillion (£15 trillion) - the equivalent of the European Union's annual output.
article_snippet: Yesterday Yesterday warned that if left untackled, drug-resistant TB superbugs threaten to shrink the world economy by 0.63 percent annually.
article_snippet: The UK parliamentary group's cost projections are based on a scenario in which an additional 40 per cent of all TB cases are resistant to first-line drugs, leading to a doubling of the infection rate. '
article_snippet: The rising global burden of multidrug-resistant TB and other drug-resistant infections will come at a human and economic cost which the global community simply cannot afford to ignore', economist Jim O'Neill said in a statement.
highlights_snippet: Could also cost the global economy a cumulative $16.7 trillion (£15 trillion)
  