antibiotic resistance
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Fully Resistant Superbug Fungus Spreads Between People in the U.S. for the First Time
A dangerous, drug-resistant fungal infection seems to have accomplished a new scary feat in the U.S. On Friday, officials with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported two unrelated outbreaks of Candida auris that happened earlier this year. The outbreaks were found in long-term care facilities and hospitals and featured fully and highly resistant…
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Blue Light and Essential Oil Compound Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Skin Infections in Mice
A team of scientists claim to have found a novel way to treat stubborn skin infections that don’t respond to antibiotics. In experiments with mice, they showed that a combination of blue light mixed with a compound found in oregano oil could easily kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria living in skin wounds without harming the mice. If…
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Scientists Are Re-Engineering Viruses To Cure Bacterial Infections
The world is in the midst of a global “superbug” crisis. Antibiotic resistance has been found in numerous common bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, gonorrhoea and salmonellosis, making them difficult ” if not impossible ” to treat. We’re on the cusp of a “post-antibiotic era”, where there are fewer treatment options for such antibiotic-resistant strains. Given…
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It’s Time To Kick Big Pharma Out Of Antibiotics Research, Scientists Argue
In the wake of recent reports showing that antibiotic-resistant superbugs are on the rise, some scientists in the UK are pushing for a fix that might seem radical. They argue that the research and development of new antibiotics should be taken out of the pharmaceutical industry’s hands and publicly funded on a global scale.