A record 384 New Jersey residents contracted a deadly fungal pathogen last year. The fungus, Candida auris, kills about a third of its victims. And it’s just one of many drug-resistant superbugs wreaking havoc across the Garden State — and across the entire world, for that matter.

Antibiotic resistance contributes to roughly 170,000 U.S. deaths annually, and the toll grows each year.

According to a new analysis, antibiotic resistance is forecast to cause more than 39 million global deaths between 2025 and 2050. That’s more than four times the entire population of New Jersey.

Read more in NJ Spotlight News.