Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill, who led the project, noted that in Europe and the United States alone around 50,000 people currently die each year from infections caused by superbug forms of bacteria such as E.coli.
"Unless something is done by 2050, that number could become 10 million people losing their lives each year from then onwards," he told a briefing in London.
O'Neill, who was asked by British Prime Minister David Cameron in July to take a global economist's view of the problem, said he feared the assessment of its $100 trillion impact may be too conservative.
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"As big as that number might seem, it almost definitely underestimates the true economic cost," he said.
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