superbugs
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Petting Zoos May Be Chock Full Of Superbugs
Those adorably tame goats and other animals you love to touch at your local petting zoo might not be so harmless after all, according to some early research out this weekend. It suggests that many petting zoo animals could harbour and potentially spread dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including two strains of Escherichia coli that cause foodborne…
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A Common Household Ingredient Might Sabotage Your Antibiotics
Your daily gob of toothpaste or spritz of body spray might be inadvertently mucking up your antibiotic treatment, suggests new research. It found that a common household antimicrobial ingredient—triclosan—seemed to reduce the potency of antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections by a hundred-fold, at least in mice.
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Pet Store Puppies Are Spreading A Diarrhoea-Causing Superbug To Humans
One of the few bastions of purity left in this forsaken world—puppies—might be inadvertently spreading a bacterial superbug that causes diarrhoea. Last week, the Centres for Disease and Prevention in the U.S. reported that an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Campylobacter jejuni has sickened more than 100 people across 18 states in the past two years. And…
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Australian Study Finds Hand Sanitisers Are Becoming Less Effective Against Some Hospital Superbugs
Bacteria are steadily winning the war against even our strongest antibiotics, stoking fears of a future that resembles Victorian-era England in all the worst ways. A new study published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine is sure to add to this existential terror: It suggests that at least some hospital-spread bugs are also starting to fend…