Britain's worrying rise in deaths from may be due to some doctors not taking the condition seriously, according to the UK's top sepsis expert.The life-threatening condition occurs when the immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage the body's tissues and organs, and over the past decade deaths from it have soared – from 37,000 a year in 2013 to about 48,000 a year now.Despite repeated awareness campaigns aimed at speeding up diagnosis and treatment, sepsis now causes more deaths than breast, prostate and bowel combined.
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