Also at CST agm, page-4

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Senator Kennedy, in a speech to Congress, said "The growing financial burden of antimicrobial resistance on the health care system is staggering. Treating a patient with TB usually costs $12,000. But when a patient has drug-resistant TB, that figure soars to $180,000. The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases estimates that the total cost of antimicrobial resistance to the US health care system is as high as $4 billion every year - and this figure will only rise as resistant infections become more common."