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Call for global antibiotic research fund amid resistance fears
Antibiotic resistance; EU migrant quotas and India's Modi on tour in China.
Drug-resistant microbes could kill an estimated 10 million people a year worldwide by 2050 and cost $100 trillion in lost economic output. The EU unveils a new blueprint for dealing with the migration crisis, including a controversial plan for national quotas. And India's PM starts a three-day tour of China but will mutual mistrust railroad any plans for economic co-operation?
(Picture: The global pharmaceutical industry is being called on to pay for a $2bn innovation fund to revitalise research into antibiotics. Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)
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Thu 14 May 2015
06:00GMT
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Online
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Call For Fight on Bacteria
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- Thu 14 May 2015 06:00GMTÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Online