Government caught in MASSIVE COVERUP - Doctor claims '18 million people will die'

Superbugs are as 'big a risk as terrorism.'

The UK estimates at least 23,000 people die every year as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant superbugs - but are those number accurate?

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Dr. Ron Daniels, the chief executive of UK Sepsis Trust, believes the number of deaths by superbugs are considerably larger than anything the government is reporting.

He claims the issue lies in government statistics being calculated using "ballpark" figures from foreign studies.

Professor Dame Sally Davies, the government's medical officer for England has described antimicrobial resistance as "big a risk as terrorism" and recently reported: "At present, around seven per cent of deaths are due to infections. If we do not act, this could rise to 40 per cent - as it was before we had antibiotics."

Though superbugs are responsible for so many deaths, it is rare for them to be listed on death certificates.

UK Sepsis Trust has called for an official register of superbug deaths to raise awareness of the deadly threat.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism claims superbugs are killing double the number the government claims and warned the world lies on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era," where lesser infections will be without treatment, leading to an increased number of fatalities.

People, especially children, are often diagnosed with infections, whether they are of the ears, tonsils, bladder or urinary tract, each of these infections is treated with antibiotics.

Now what if there are no antibiotics to treat them?

Something as small as an ear infection is suddenly deadly and doctors are left watching helplessly as patients die slow, often painful deaths.

Dr. Daniels explained: "We reach more than 5,000 deaths with just resistant E. coli alone. If we add other resistant bugs we get to almost 12,000 deaths."

So why is it going unreported?

Antibiotic resistance is rarely screened for and is not always detected or noted on death certificates. To make matters worse, statistics in the UK were derived from the CDC stats of the United States.

As the UK is home to about 20 percent of the U.S. population, the government simply made an estimate of the UK then rounded up to 5,000. Even then, the CDC has been accused of creating its statistics from AMR-related deaths in only 11 states during the year 2011.

"This was a ballpark figure based on a single study," Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, the director of the U.S.' Center for Disease Dynamic, Economics & Policy, reported. "These were not scientific estimates but rather [numbers to be] used for advocacy. I think 23,000 is a gross understatement, it is probably twice that number."

In response to rising concerns, the British government has been raising awareness of antibiotic resistance but refuses to change its statistics.

"We know globally we see 18 million cases of sepsis [a year]," Dr. Daniels explained. "If we don't have antibiotics that work those 18 million people will die. In the UK the 150,000 people a year who get sepsis will die. Conserving antibiotics to treat sepsis is absolutely, literally, vital."

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