Signal AMR named a high consequence risk in the 2023 Biological Security Strategy

Summary

The report cites the 2023 Biological Security Strategy as part of the UK's response to AMR. The strategy classifies AMR as a high consequence risk. It also commits to bringing AMR into a real-time Biothreats Radar. Alongside it, the report lists the second five-year National Action Plan launched in 2024 and the 20-year vision, a One Health approach that links human, animal and environmental health. It further explains that AMR is an international problem no country can solve alone, so the UK supports low- and middle-income countries with grants and funding through the Fleming Fund and the Global AMR Innovation Fund. Behind this emphasis lies the estimate cited in the report that unchecked resistance could cost 100 trillion US dollars cumulatively by 2050.