How tackling sepsis can save millions of lives—and prevent future pandemic deaths

Medical Xpress January 30, 2025
Frontiers

Sepsis is an underestimated killer. Nearly a quarter of patients treated for sepsis in hospital will die, but because so many different illnesses can predispose patients to experiencing it, it’s overlooked as a direct cause of death. Yet approximately 20% of deaths worldwide are caused by sepsis, and currently we have no treatments that tackle it directly.

Now researchers writing in Frontiers in Science explain how systems immunology can help us understand and treat sepsis—and how this could cut the death toll of future pandemics, no matter what disease causes them.

“We need to adopt a concerted approach to tackle sepsis,” said Prof. Robert Hancock of the University of British Columbia, lead author of the article. “Only a very small...

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