In the medical world, this is known as antimicrobial resistance. Today, superbugs could be the greatest public health threat ...
It comes after figures showed a recent sharp increase in the number of prescriptions ... fueling once harmless bacteria to become superbugs. The World Health Organization (WHO) has previously ...
Recent years have seen the rise of bacterial pathogens that have developed resistance to antibiotics. One such superbug, carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), kills hundreds of ...
Researchers at the University of Stirling are warning that increasing levels of "antibiotic pollution" are becoming a public ...
Doing so is directly linked to the rise in treatment-resistant superbugs, which are more likely to leap between animals to humans within a factory farm’s cramped, poorly ventilated environments.
“If we guess incorrectly, that patient’s risk of dying might increase, because they haven ... up to 10 million people could die annually from superbugs. “The more we use any class of ...
Superbugs kill over one million people each ... The widespread use of antibiotics has significantly caused the increase of[multi-drug resistant] E. coli which were isolated from companion animals ...
There is a global drive to reduce the use of antibiotics, in both human medicine and agriculture, to tackle the rise of 'superbugs' - strains of bacteria that can no longer be treated by certain ...
Your dog’s poop might be a dangerous source of bacterial superbugs. In a new study, researchers in China detail evidence that dogs experiencing diarrhea are commonly carrying multi-drug ...
mechanical methods to effectively clean spaces (i.e., stabbing virus cells like they’re shish kabobs), the designers believe ...
A joint probe by ITV News and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has revealed that UK food chiefs are considering a ban ...
The misuse of antibiotics has fueled the dangerous spread of hard-to-treat infections like C. Diff and MRSA that can turn deadly. Here 's how to protect yourself.