Nearly one million people die each year due to drug-resistant diseases, In the United States, 2.8MM antibiotic-resistant infections occur with more the 35,000 people not surviving. 

The World Health Organization declared antimicrobial resistance is one of top 10 global public health threat, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified 14 microbes which present as urgent and serious threats based on the level of concern to human health.

Without effective treatments, the success of modern medicine will be at risk.