antibiotic resistance
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New Report On Superbugs Is Full Of Bad News
The world continues to lose ground against antibiotic resistance, according to a new report out this week from U.S. health institute, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And among other things, the number of superbugs that pose a dire threat to the health of Americans has only gotten larger in the past half decade.
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Even The Flies Inside Hospitals Carry Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Upwards of 90 per cent of insects found in British hospitals carry potentially harmful bacteria, according to new research. Alarmingly, a significant portion of this bacteria is resistant to one or more antibiotics, highlighting a previously under-appreciated health risk—though the researchers caution that chances of infection are low.
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Scientists Might Have Found A Way To Thwart Deadly Superbug Outbreaks In Space
For years now, scientists have sounded the alarm about a potential nightmare for astronauts on the International Space Station: antibiotic-resistant superbugs that could be even more dangerous in space than they are on Earth. This week, research say they’ve found a way to better prevent such hardy bacteria from growing on surfaces of the ISS.
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Childhood Antibiotics Could Raise Risk Of Mental Illness, Study Finds
For all the good that antibiotics do, relying on them too much can have pretty drastic drawbacks. In particular, their overuse can help create bacterial superbugs resistant to future antibiotics. But a new study published this week in JAMA Psychiatry suggests there’s another, more subtle consequence of antibiotic use, at least in young people: a…