 |
Ignorance over antibiotics fuels superbug threat: WHOPeople across the world are alarmingly confused about the role of antibiotics and the right way to take them, and this ignorance is fuelling the rise of drug-resistant superbugs, the World Health Organization said on Monday. " More… |
 |
Antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' alert in Gulf hospitalsClones of a dangerous 'superbug' that can be passed from patient to patient have reportedly been found in hospitals in the GCC, including Bahrain. Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia yesterday reveale More… |
 |
Battling nightmare infections: a plan to beat the superbugWith painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug. Now US health officials want that kind of campaign to go national. The Whit More… |
|
A plan to beat the superbugWith painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug. Now US health officials want that kind of campaign to go national. The Whit More… |
 |
New antibiotic kills bugs without resistanceScientists have discovered a new antibiotic, teixobactin, that can kill serious infections in mice without encountering any detectable resistance, offering a potential new way to get ahead of dangerous evolving superbugs. Research More… |
 |
Unchecked superbugs could kill 10 million a yearDrug-resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people a year and cost up to $100 trillion by 2050 if their rampant global spread is not halted, according to a British government-commissioned review. Such infections alread More… |
|
Unchecked superbugs could kill 10 million a yearDrug-resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people a year and cost up to $100 trillion by 2050 if their rampant global spread is not halted, according to a British government-commissioned review. Such infections alread More… |
 |
Use of antibiotics by poultry firms sparks superbug debateMajor US poultry firms are administering antibiotics to their flocks far more pervasively than regulators realise, posing a potential risk to human health, says a Reuters report. Internal records examined by Reuters reveal that so More… |
|
Use of antibitics by poultry firms sparks superbug debateMajor US poultry firms are administering antibiotics to their flocks far more pervasively than regulators realise, posing a potential risk to human health, says a Reuters report. Internal records examined by Reuters reveal that so More… |
 |
'Superbug' TB infects 32,000 kids every yearAs many as 32,000 children worldwide become sick each year with a drug-resistant "superbug" strain of tuberculosis, according to new estimates by US researchers that for the first time quantify rates of this difficult-to-treat form of More… |
