At least 23000 in­di­vid­u­als lost their lives due to antibiotic resistant infections last year.

The CDC recently released a report on the antibiotic resistant pathogens. It’s fright­en­ing, almost as fright­en­ing as a Department of Defence Concept Plan to handle an Influenza pandemic that starts out with an assumption that 2,000,000+ citizens will die.

As fright­en­ing as the CDC report is, however it’s worth a read. The report is well written and contains a lot of useful in­for­ma­tion about the origin of drug resistant bacteria and fungus, how we are currently making the problem worse, what to do about it, and some of the greatest current threats.

Finally, to bang on a drum that I’ve hit before: Number of deaths of private US citizens due to terrorism in 2012? According to the Department of State there were 10 such deaths.