# Antimicrobial resistance

- kind: problem
- status: open
- year: 1945

**Statement.** Can new antibiotics and strategies outpace the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria?

Resistant infections were directly responsible for over a million deaths in 2019. Few new antibiotic classes have been discovered since the 1980s, largely because they earn too little to justify development. Machine-learning screens have found candidates such as halicin and abaucin, and pull incentives such as subscription payments are being tried to fix the economics.

## Sources

- [Wikipedia: Antimicrobial resistance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance)

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