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Drug-resistant tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest superbug. It develops when bacteria that causes tuberculosis, a disease believed to be as old as mankind, stops responding to drugs used to treat it, largely because health-care workers improperly prescribe medicine or patients stop treatment early.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports a rise in bacteria with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort across the country last year.
AN ENGLISH man has contracted a new strain of ‘super gonorrhoea’, so named because it is resistant to two vital antibiotics. He reportedly caught the disease during a one-night stand in south-east Asia.
Enlarge / Moo. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) There’s been something of a renaissance of raw milk in recent years. And, not surprisingly, the dicey drink of bygone eras is also reviving disease outbreaks. In recent years, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have noted that more states have made it legal to […]
Charley Gallay / Stringer / Getty Images Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner died last Wednesday at age 91 of two main causes — cardiac arrest (a sudden stopping of the heart) and a bacterial infection. The infection was triggered by E. coli, a common bacteria that is often survivable in adults but can cause complications […]
Enlarge / A strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at the CDC. (credit: CDC) More than 200 patients in more than 55 UK hospitals were discovered by healthcare workers to be infected or colonized by the multi-drug resistant fungus Candida auris, a globally emerging yeast pathogen that has experts nervous. Three of […]
