" — Drugmakers struggle with superbugs: "The world desperately needs new antibiotics to tackle the rising threat of drug-resistant superbugs, but there is little reward for doing so.
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Superbugs In today's Oh Great, Here's Something Else to Worry About news, there's a family of superbugs that's not just resistant to antibiotics but they may be spreading person-to-person without symptoms.
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But they are constantly hunting for a cure for superbugs.
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Already, superbugs are responsible for 700,000 deaths a year worldwide.
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Superbugs in the trap should have stayed in the trap.
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Superbugs are bacteria that no longer respond to antibiotic treatment.
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Today, superbugs are estimated to cause 700,000 deaths every year.
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There are also shows about superbugs, computers, extinction and more.
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The ISS might even have superbugs thriving alongside its human crew.
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The more we use antibiotics, the more resistant these superbugs become.
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It's also contributed to the emergence of new antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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Drug-resistant "superbugs" like candida auris evolve to resist existing treatments.
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After all, shouldn't proper cooking kill all Salmonella, even the superbugs?
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Now it's being harnessed in the fight against superbugs and the flu.
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If approved, it will be used as a last resort against superbugs.
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These superbugs send people to the hospital, and sometimes even claim lives.
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In particular, their overuse can help create bacterial superbugs resistant to future antibiotics.
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It's part of the reason why antibiotic-resistant superbugs are on the rise.
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The phage is now a potentially potent weapon against these so-called superbugs.
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Working together as a phage cocktail, lytic phages can target and destroy superbugs.
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The Silicon Valley start-up shifts the paradigm on how to tackle superbugs.
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On Wednesday, superbugs will be the center of attention on the world stage.
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These superbugs threaten modern medicine, the safety of our food system — and us.
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We approved measures to target rare diseases and runaway superbugs that resist antibiotics.
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Worse still, they contribute to the rise of "superbugs" that resist antibiotic treatment.
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Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million People a Year By 2050An 18-month review into antimicrobial resistance warns that superbugs will kill upwards of 10…Read more ReadThis latest development is another discouraging reminder that our antibiotics are failing.
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Oh, and it'll also contribute to the evolution of impervious superbugs, so there's that.
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This isn't NASA's first rodeo with bacteria or superbugs on the station, she said.
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Klebsiella is a member of a class of superbugs known as carbapenem-resistant bacteria.
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At UCLA, three patients died and five more were sickened by antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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But there's something else threatening human existence that doesn't get nearly enough attention: superbugs.
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Other countries have already seen multi-drug resistant superbugs that no antibiotic can fight.
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The Energy and Commerce Committee also holds a hearing on "superbugs" and antibiotic resistance.
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The hope is that not only would it succeed in killing the desired superbugs, but stave off the creation of future superbugs by only targeting one type of bacteria in the body, rather than indiscriminately wiping out many helpful bacteria along the way.
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Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million People a Year By 2050An 18-month review into antimicrobial resistance warns that superbugs will kill upwards of 10…Read more ReadWe probably won't see these cows in the United States for a long time, however.
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The woman had broken her femur while in India, where superbugs are considerably more common.
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By 2050, superbugs could kill 10 million people, according to the Review of Antimicrobial Resistance.
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Experts have warned that superbugs are likely to become more common in the near future.
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Both exposures add to bacterial resiliency, and in some cases, the creation of nightmarish superbugs.
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Headlines about antibiotic resistance – the increase in so-called "superbugs" – have been persistent in 2016.
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This, then, is why researchers, doctors, and scientists warn about the deadly challenge of superbugs.
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U.S.-funded research is enabling new antibiotics to fight the rise of drug-resistant superbugs.
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The more we use antibiotics, the more we help these superbugs build up their resistance.
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This would do everyone a disservice: Patients wouldn't receive optimal care and superbugs would multiply.
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It would also theoretically lessen the risk of antibiotic-resistant superbugs emerging from livestock operations.
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Many of the most deadly superbugs aren't airborne, CDC infectious disease specialist Alexander Kallen explained.
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After all, genetically matching superbugs have been found in dozens of turkey and chicken plants.
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That is key to preventing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or superbugs, she said.
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Stealthy "superbugs" that cause dangerous infections are one of the world's biggest public health concerns.
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We use antibiotics when they're not necessary – and accelerate the potential that superbugs will develop.
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UV-C rays are germicidal and can neutralize "superbugs" that have developed a resistance to antibiotics.
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"Our arsenal to defeat superbugs is running out and needs to be replenished," the review said.
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In Europe, 0.903% of deaths caused by superbugs are from infections that occur in medical settings.
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Superbugs are considered a major international health threat, so significant interest in the research is expected.
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"Antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs really [do] put modern medicine at risk," Bell explained.
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So far, there haven't been any signs of widespread resistance to colistin among these specific superbugs.
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Newman said the "Shirley Temple" discovery was a huge step forward in the fight against superbugs.
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Global health experts agree the world urgently needs new medicines to keep ahead of the superbugs.
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Image: WikimediaIn recent years, superbugs have become one of the biggest threats to modern human health.
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Now, as happened in Alaska, doctors are encountering superbugs that are developing resistance to colistin, too.
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ELSEWHERE ➔ Public health: Overuse of antibiotics worldwide created superbugs, infections that modern medicine struggles to eradicate.
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Now, thanks to several new reports, we know that not even hospitals are immune to superbugs.
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Scientists have long warned that these methods breed superbugs that have become resistant to traditional drugs.
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Resistant germs are often called "superbugs," but this is simplistic because they don't typically kill everyone.
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At an almost alarming rate, news stories about new "superbugs" are popping up around the world.
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This lack of access, or delayed access, to antibiotics actually kills more people globally than superbugs.
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Researchers weren't sure just how this could happen, however: It wasn't clear how the superbugs were traveling from the colonized trap (the curved pipe running from the sink drain, where superbugs were found) to, presumably, hospital workers—who were, ironically, just trying to wash their hands.
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Think that superbugs and antibiotic-resistant bacteria only exist in apocalyptic sci-fi movies and internet clickbait?
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Superbugs threaten the entire world; we have interfered in the delicate balance between humanity, viruses, and bacteria.
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The impetus here is the looming threat of so-called superbugs that have grown resistant to antibiotics.
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This adorable dog is saving lives and money by sniffing out dangerous superbugs at a Vancouver hospital.
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Doctors quickly burned through the antibiotics used as the second and third lines of defense against superbugs.
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That's great news because antibiotics are overused in general, contributing to the growth of antibiotic resistant superbugs.
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In September, the UN convened a rare high-level meeting at the General Assembly to address superbugs.
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Malawi A scourge of superbugs is killing Malawi's babies, and doctors are rushing to find a solution.
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Otherwise, heavily resistant bacteria, some colloquially known as "superbugs," may threaten both our health and our wallets.
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In February, the World Health Organization ranked the most dangerous superbugs, calling for new tools against them.
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The use of UV-C light is used in hospital surgical suites to aid in killing superbugs.
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Overuse of antibiotics has been linked to the emergence of deadly superbugs that are resistant to drugs.
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Scientists say they've created a simpler, safer version of teixobactin, an experimental antibiotic touted as a new weapon against superbugs like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)Illustration: NIAID (CC BY 2.0)A class of antibiotics heralded as an essential future weapon against drug-resistant superbugs passed an important test.
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Evidence from Singer's lab and elsewhere has also shown that sewage acts as a potent catalyst for superbugs.
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A new British study has zeroed in on an unlikely contributor to the spread of these superbugs: Surfers.
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So-called 'superbugs' usually reference bacteria that are especially hard to kill, having evolved resistance to multiple antibiotics.
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On Tuesday, the Energy and Commerce Committee will examine the response to "superbugs" that are resistant to antibiotics.
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These pathogens are called "superbugs" because they cause infections for which we have limited or no effective treatments.
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Even more worrying is a growing pile of research showing that triclosan can actually help create bacterial superbugs.
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Any use of antibiotics promotes the development and spread of multi-drug-resistant infections, or superbugs, he said.
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This is the same UV-C light technology used in hospital surgical suites to aid in killing superbugs.
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That's a major concern, because when these "superbugs" spread in livestock farms and hospitals, disease can run rampant.
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The bacteria have adapted to our drugs, morphing into superbugs that can all too easily decimate our health.
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A second use would be to reduce surgical site infections, one of the most common ways superbugs spread.
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And recent reports from India reveal that superbugs have become the leading cause of death for leukemia patients.
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A potentially greater problem is superbugs, the antibiotic-resistant bacteria that proliferate among confined animals in factory farms.
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Flooding in California, a rocket launch in Florida, and the fight against "superbugs" are also featured in this show.
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Every year, these superbugs infect more than 2 million people in the United States and kill at least 23,000.
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Superbugs that couldn't be treated with the last line of defence have been reported in France, Japan, and Spain.
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The rest of Europe is looking to the Netherlands as superbugs scarier than MRSA, once rare, are spreading fast.
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People can harbour superbugs on the skin, around the nostrils or in the gut, where they are usually harmless.
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The waters -- including Guanabara Bay, where sailing competitions will be held -- are full of viruses and drug resistant superbugs.
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What led scientists to investigate the Tasmanian devil's potential to kill superbugs was not its appetite, but its pouch.
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Now there are "superbugs" impervious to most (in some cases, all) antibiotics known to science, and they're very deadly.
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The ISS and other spacecraft in the future could be a great breeding ground for superbugs, for several reasons.
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The Reuters analysis found more than 5,500 deaths linked to superbugs there, more than half of them MRSA-related.
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But we also have to confront the fact that we've overused antibiotics, and contend with the rise of superbugs.
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Seagull's eating habits could explain how the birds were infected with these so-called superbugs, the study's authors said.
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The United Nations was right to ring the alarm about superbugs, a growing danger that requires a global response.
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Antibiotic-resistant microbes, known as superbugs, are pinballing around the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year.
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" That was a World Health Organization official after the group ranked a list of a dozen antibiotic-resistant "superbugs.
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In other health news, the World Health Organization warned that a dozen antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" pose an enormous threat.
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" That was a World Health Organization official after the group released a list of a dozen antibiotic-resistant "superbugs.
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The United States' response to antibiotic resistant bacteria is still in its infancy, and superbugs are increasingly a global problem.
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They've evolved so that a whole class of antibiotics cannot kill them, making them into what are known as superbugs.
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Photo: NASA (Getty Images)No place is safe from the scourge of superbugs, a new study suggests, not even space.
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At the same time, it's thought that improper and uncontrolled use of antibiotics has helped fuel the emergence of superbugs.
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The researchers also thought the phenol kick could help kill bacteria before they had time to evolve into resistant superbugs.
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In that scenario, superbugs could kill one person every three seconds and cost up to $100 trillion within 35 years.
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This "search and destroy" approach to superbugs is a Dutch speciality, though variations are also used in the Nordic countries.
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"When people think of superbugs and antibiotic resistant-bacteria, they think of the hospital," she said in a Skype interview.
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Then there's the water-polluting fecal run-off, the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and the conscience-curdling animal murder.
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Overuse in pig production in China, for example, has spawned superbugs that have surfaced in the United States and Europe.
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Recently, more than 80 pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies signed a declaration that committed them to help tackle drug-resistant superbugs.
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Scientists have been cautiously excited about closthioamide since its discovery in 2010 because of its potential to fight off superbugs.
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WATCH: The Virus That Kills Drug-Resistant Superbugs VICE: What has been the biggest developments in your fields this year?
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There's grave concern in the medical community about the rise of drug-resistant superbugs that aren't affected by modern medicines.
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At the same time, interest in fecal transplants as a treatment for everything from superbugs to malnourishment has grown dramatically.
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Hospitals are losing an important public relations battle over the expanding threat of superbugs, including the deadly fungus Candida auris.
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In a world of rising seas and wealth inequality, of superstorms and superbugs, there is nothing more precious than escape.
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Just as superbugs develop resistance to antibiotics, it's likely that wild populations will develop resistance to modifications aimed at destroying them.
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How can new technology deal with rogue drones, and what can be learned from Dutch hospitals in the fight against superbugs?
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That's also why superbugs most often occur in hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities – places where susceptible populations are concentrated.
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They put millions of patients worldwide at risk each year and exacerbate the spread of antibiotic resistant superbugs such as MRSA.
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When people hear about antibiotic resistance creating "superbugs", they tend to think of new diseases and pandemics spreading out of control.
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What's more, it pioneered a treatment experts believe might help combat the growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as superbugs.
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But even if some countries or major players take action against superbugs, they won't be able to fix the problem alone.
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A 2013 CDC study estimated that 2 million Americans were infected by superbugs each year, leading to at least 23,000 deaths.
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A 2013 CDC study estimated that 2 million Americans were infected by superbugs each year, leading to at least 23,000 deaths.
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The vancomycin-resistant form of these two superbugs is on WHO's list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed.
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Just short of fantasizing, McPherson lists myriad apocalyptic scenarios: nuclear war, superbugs, climate change, solar flares, bees dying or killer asteroids.
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Superbugs, which are bacteria unresponsive to the drugs we have in our medical arsenal, naturally evolve in response to antibiotic exposure.
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He believes antibiotics administered to an infected patient are not the only way to fight superbugs or other germs and viruses.
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This has made the evolution of "superbugs" that can evade one or multiple drugs one of the biggest threats facing medicine today.
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Goel hopes that the ISS will work in a similar way for the bacteria to give us a predictive edge on superbugs.
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The superbugs can be passed on any other way that infections spread, like through person-to-person contact or touching infected surfaces.
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Many of these bacteria have already evolved into deadly superbugs that are resistant to many antibiotics, the United National health agency said.
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His group is also working to develop vaccines against a range of currently resistant bacteria, including hospital superbugs, MRSA and clostridium difficile.
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The approval comes at a time when several drugmakers are shying away from developing antibiotics as combating resistant "superbugs" become increasingly challenging.
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Maybe it will meet its maker from superbugs and nuclear war in 50 years, or sea level rise in a few centuries.
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The evidence for the effectiveness of any one tactic, such as pre-emptive isolation or testing all patients for superbugs, is thin.
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There are alternatives to antibiotics, like strains of predatory bacteria that are currently being tested by DARPA, or, surprisingly, more powerful superbugs.
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The widespread overprescription of antibiotics to farm animals is leaving humans vulnerable to drug-resistant "superbugs," for which there are no cures.
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Drugmakers, however, have been shying away from developing antibiotics as combating antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, popularly known as superbugs, has become increasingly challenging.
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These findings come at a time when hospitals nationwide are increasingly grappling with antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that don't respond to available medicines.
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New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that deadly superbugs pose a greater risk than experts previously estimated.
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Global charitable foundation Wellcome has announced a £2.4 million ($3.2 million) investment in a project to track the worldwide impact of superbugs.
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Furthermore, I'm certain that trying to find cures for cancer, AIDS, Zika, Ebola, Superbugs and other diseases is incredibly complex and expensive.
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Overtreatment with antibiotics is contributing to the very serious problem of "superbugs;" multiresistant bacteria pose a substantial risk to possibly more people.
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Even Ipanema and Leblon — two of Rio's most famous tourist beaches — have tested positive for these superbugs at least half the time.
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Besides contributing to the worldwide rise of drug-resistant superbugs, you risk developing fun complications like diarrhea and yeast infections, Hurt says.
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"If you travel from Sweden to Italy, there is a real chance you will pick up one of these superbugs," Sprenger says.
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These nightmares, I've come to believe, stem from my fear of that which I cannot control: earthquakes, drunken drivers, antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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To combat and track the problem, many hospitals across the world now routinely test patients and hospital surfaces for known troublesome superbugs.
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Today's "enterococci" superbugs likely arose from ancestors dating back 450 million years ago, according to a new study in the journal Cell.
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Estimates show that 10 million people a year will die worldwide from the effects of superbugs by the middle of this century.
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Efforts to improve sanitation and hygiene in Ghana's health sector are part of wider plans to slow the growing threat of superbugs.
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The UK government said the threat to the human race from antibiotic-resistant superbugs is greater than the threat from climate change.
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These findings are particularly troublesome because resistant superbugs are often created and spread in hospitals, where they can easily infect already sick patients.
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Given this latest outbreak, though, it seems it's too early to hope that farms won't continue to be a breeding ground for superbugs.
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A future version of the Apocalypse perfume would perhaps smell rather different—the odour of superbugs, rising seas, and whatever plutonium smells like.
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But while it's difficult to know exactly how many people are succumbing to deadly superbugs, cases are still thought to be relatively rare.
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Its goal: to fast-track the development of a pipeline of new antibiotics, vaccines and other products to fight the war on superbugs.
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In Europe, the prevalence of superbugs is particularly high in Greece, Italy and Romania, but international travel has put other countries on notice.
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From the spread of superbugs to the development of antibiotic-resistant acne, antibiotic resistance seems to be affecting every area of our lives.
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Three superbugs -- bacteria that cannot be killed by the best available drug -- were detected in Japan, France and Spain, according to the WHO.
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"While we have seen progress in recognition around the world of the threat that superbugs pose, we need to regain momentum," Jinks said.
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Still, researchers make a convincing case for how superbugs go from sink to patient in hospitals, and they even offer up a solution.
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Experts have warned since the 1990s that lethal superbugs were on the horizon, but few drugmakers have attempted to develop drugs against them.
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Without new therapies, people are already starting to die from antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" like the dreaded MRSA infection, a deadly version of staph.
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With the move, KFC became the last major chicken restaurant to join the fight to against dangerous superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics.
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The US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases was set up in the 1960s to counteract the development or weaponization of superbugs.
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As we treat our illnesses with antibiotics, bacteria and viruses modify themselves to become hardened against them, creating new microorganisms known as superbugs.
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Antibiotic-resistant superbugs have already started to take hold in India, where antibiotics were, for a long time, widely available over the counter.
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Dr. Johnson insists that it's highly unlikely that a case like this could happen again, but he does worry about the future of superbugs.
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In the past ten years, as the world began to panic about the rise of resistant superbugs, governments and charities provided early-stage financing.
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"Superbugs" are strains of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, and they have been gaining strength and shifting the tide in their favor.
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"Superbugs are always changing and the more they change and the more antibiotics we use, the more dangerous the situation is." warns Dr. Bell.
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The microbe responsible for gonorrhea and Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are just a few of today's "superbugs" that have evolved a resistance to most medications.
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In less than 100 years, however, this miracle drug has led to a global crisis known as antibiotic resistance, leading to pathogens called superbugs.
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Enter the age of drug-resistant "superbugs," the consequence of corporate marketing, prescription-happy physicians and the use of growth-inducing antibiotics in livestock.
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But to fully understand how resistance evolves, studying superbugs isn't enough: You need large, diverse bacterial boroughs to understand how bugs siphon off new genes.
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A more in-depth study on this case and superbugs was published this week in the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a CDC publication.
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To push the industry to focus more on public health, WHO has released a list of the superbugs it thinks should be the highest priority.
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Those so-called "superbugs" enter our system when we eat undercooked meat or veggies that have been exposed to irrigation water contaminated with animal waste.
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The real risk is that those beachgoers who do get infected will wind up spreading those superbugs around, even if they don't get sick themselves.
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"We wanted to find out how these superbugs are spread, and whether there is a cross-over from the food chain to humans," Livermore said.
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Frieden warned that although this is the first case in the United States, we should expect to see more such superbugs in the near future.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have taken hold in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, threatening to undermine progress against the disease, scientists said.
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But for all our justified fears about superbugs, there's a simple precaution against infections that most of us fail to take: washing our hands correctly.
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These bacteria are some of the most feared superbugs around, largely because they carry mutations that make them resistant to a wide variety of antibiotics.
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Any use of antibiotics promotes the development and spread of superbugs - multi-drug-resistant infections that can evade the antimicrobial drugs designed to kill them.
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Congress followed last year with a $160 million increase in the CDC's budget to bolster research, drug development and surveillance of superbugs by the states.
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Viruses don't respond to antibiotics, and use of the drugs for viral infections helps bacteria to morph into superbugs that resist treatment in the future.
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According to the BBC, it's more likely that superbugs and long-dormant diseases are what people will have to look out for in the future.
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Experts have warned since the 1990s that especially bad superbugs could be on the horizon, but few drugmakers have attempted to develop drugs against them.
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Researchers are also dedicated to finding other, non-antibiotic treatments, from phage therapy to bacteria-specific drugs that can knock out superbugs in other ways.
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It's incredibly impressive to look at, but it's also a grim reminder of the danger posed by "superbugs" — bacteria that have evolved to survive antibiotics.
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A recent report warned that antibiotic-resistant superbugs could kill upwards of 10 million people a year by 2050 if nothing is done about it.
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Every year, an estimated 23,000 Americans die from antibiotic-resistant superbugs Candida auris worries healthcare experts because it can't be contained with existing drug treatments.
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Scientists warn the routine use of antibiotics in animals is contributing to the rise of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," posing a major threat to human health.
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Brenner declared his personal "war on superbugs" after a friend -- "a healthy guy in the prime of life" -- died of an infection following minor surgery.
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It gives germs the ability to withstand the effects of colistin, a last-resort antibiotic used to save the lives of people infected with serious superbugs.
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With concerns about the rise of so-called "superbugs" at an all-time high, scientists are on a mission to find better ways to tackle infections.
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The 2019 list includes things like infectious disease epidemics and drug-resistant superbugs as well as potentially preventable health problems, such as heart and lung disease.
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Other labs in the large blue complex are working to develop antibiotics that will bypass all the known resistance mechanisms, and kill even the worst superbugs.
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Superbugs have become a major problem, with some bacteria evolving resistance to so many drugs there is no longer a readily available way to kill them.
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Scientists are also looking at other members of the marsupial family to see whether animals like the milk from koalas and wallabies may also fight superbugs.
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Image: WikimediaFor the first time ever, the World Health Organization has published a list of the 12 superbugs that pose the greatest threat to human health.
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For those who desire to know all the different ways they might possibly die, the full list of critical and high-priority deadly superbugs is below.
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It also means patients and their family members have no way of knowing whether they're potentially being exposed to superbugs at a hospital they're going to.
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Just a couple of dollars a year per person would be enough to prevent three quarters of the projected deaths due to superbugs, predicts the OECD.
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Any use of antibiotics promotes the development and spread of so-called superbugs - multi-drug-resistant infections that can evade the medicines designed to kill them.
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Any use of antibiotics promotes the development and spread of superbugs - multi-drug-resistant infections that evade the antimicrobial and antibiotic drugs designed to kill them.
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Novo Holdings' recent launch of a $165 million venture fund focused on tackling "superbugs" resistant to modern antibiotics demonstrates the paradigm shift occurring in Big Pharma.
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Any use of antibiotics promotes the development and spread of so-called superbugs — multi-drug-resistant infections that can evade the medicines designed to kill them.
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The incident has sparked concern among health officials that the nation could eventually witness the rise of multi-drug resistant superbugs, impossible to treat with existing antibiotics.
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Why it matters: The growing level of superbugs is a potentially "catastrophic" global threat that could have a yearly death toll of 10 million people by 2050.
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For example, one of the guidelines specifies that antibiotics be used before and during surgery, not afterward, as the best method to halt the spread of superbugs.
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If there was widespread understanding that curbing meat consumption could help us fight climate change and prevent antibiotic resistant superbugs, the public might just get on board.
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But the emergence of superbugs (pathogens resistant to some, many or even all of our antibiotics) means alternative approaches to dealing with pathogens are being scientifically investigated.
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In only the fourth time in its history, the United Nations met specifically to discuss a health issue: the rise of superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics.
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Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million People a Year By 2050An 18-month review into antimicrobial resistance warns that superbugs will kill upwards of 10…Read more ReadWorking under this assumption, and in an effort to discover new compounds capable of defeating antimicrobial resistant bacteria, a research team from The University of Sydney set about the task of analyzing the milk produced by a common marsupial, the Tasmanian devil.
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Rogers had become one of the millions of people in the US infected with so-called superbugs, bacteria that have evolved to thwart all of our existing antibiotics.
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Because they only looked at patients from one hospital, there needs to be more research done to figure out whether these community superbugs are really becoming more common.
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At the same time, asexual pests do have plenty of ways to evade our chemical weapons, as we're brutally finding out now with the rise of bacterial superbugs.
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Among other things, needless use of antibiotics can increase patients' risk of getting antibiotic-resistant infections, or superbugs that are harder to treat, Fleming-Dutra said by email.
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Even in the Netherlands, which has used antibiotics prudently for decades, the prevalence of some superbugs in the general population has almost doubled in the past five years.
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The rise of drug-resistant "superbugs" is a growing threat to modern medicine, with the emergence in the past year of infections resistant to even last-resort antibiotics.
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While pollution of farmland is a serious problem for villagers who depend on it for their livelihood, the potential incubation of "superbugs" in Medak's waterways has wider implications.
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There has been much concern over so-called superbugs due to the overuse of antibiotics, but this study identifies that we have always had antimicrobial resistance, he said.
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Public health experts and federal regulators have long been concerned that routine feeding of antibiotics to animals could lead to antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a health hazard for humans.
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"There is no doubt that together we can stop the superbugs which could undermine the whole of modern medicine," Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome's director, said in a statement Friday.
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Alzheimer's disease, increasingly prevalent in the U.S., afflicts 5.4 million Americans, and superbugs bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics infected 2 million Americans last year, causing 23,000 deaths.
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This has led to the development of superbugs -- bacteria that have become resistant to the main antibiotics used against them -- which present a major threat to global healthcare.
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Therefore scientists believe the impact of these superbugs can be dramatically reduced through "adequate infection prevention and control measures, as well as antibiotic stewardship," according to the report.
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Many medical scientists regard farm use of drugs that treat human infections as particularly dangerous because the practice risks promoting superbugs that can defeat life-saving human antibiotics.
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If someone becomes infected with one of these so-called "superbugs," they basically have to hope their body is able to fight off the infection on its own.
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Photo: Steffen Schmidt (AP/Keystone)Much like climate change, the growing emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial superbugs is a ticking time bomb that threatens our very way of life.
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Those policies are a first step for many fast-food chains that are under pressure to help combat the rise of dangerous "superbugs," as antibiotic-resistant bacteria are known.
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Other highlights: Xavier Aaronson went to Eastern Europe, sewage treatment plants, and the East River to learn about phages, the viruses that might save us from antibiotic resistant superbugs.
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That has caused some bacteria to evolve antibiotic resistance and turn into so-called "superbugs," which could kill millions of people annually if we don't slow our antibiotics use.
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The proceeds will be used to fund a clinical trial for its leading candidate for a drug to prevent post-surgical infection from "superbugs" including MRSA, the company said.
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Public health experts and federal regulators have long been concerned that routine feeding of certain antibiotics to animals could lead to antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a health hazard for humans.
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Hospitals remain the most potent source of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs, but these findings are only the latest to suggest no one is really safe from the threat anymore.
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The Alaska outbreak, and others like it that make headlines with increasing frequency, illustrate a major weakness in the fight against superbugs: The arsenal of antibiotics is nearly empty.
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They found six, and tested them against a handful of known superbugs: bacteria that have developed resistance to most antibiotics, including our more harsh "last resort" drugs like colistin.
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Finding solutions during a war The US military's Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research program paved the way for how superbugs to be controlled in the absence of new drugs.
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That's why a team of researchers has started investigating a potential new strategy for killing off resistant superbugs: microscopic throwing stars that rip the bacteria apart from inside your body.
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Some superbugs, which are strains of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, have been found in patients who travelled from India to countries including the United States and Britain.
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Indicated 0.6 percent higher Evotec announced a strategic alliance with Forge Therapeutics to advance an antibiotic programme for the treatment of bacterial infections including those caused by drug resistant superbugs.
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Poor sanitation and filthy hospitals made perfect habitats for the spread of superbugs—especially bacteria with the alarming ability to pass their drug-resistant genes to other species of bacteria.
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The names of who topped the Oscar winners' list may be making headlines, but there's another list of names you might want to pay attention to: the world's worst superbugs.
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In human medicine it is now used as a last-resort for the treatment of people with different kinds of infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria, or so-called "superbugs".
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The agency has developed a new system aimed at quickly identifying the superbugs, including helping staff at state health departments and lab facilities to test samples and isolate infected patients.
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Over-prescription and over-use in farming of antibiotics has given rise to so-called 'superbugs', multi-drug resistant infections that can evade even the medicines designed to kill them.
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The bank estimates that by 2050, global livestock production could fall by between 2.6 percent and 7.5 percent a year, if the problem of drug resistant superbugs is not curbed.
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Dangerous opinions about the role of antibiotics ultimately contribute to the evolution of superbugs, such as untreatable gonorrhea, because they make us weaker to all types of infections, including STDs.
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Regular soap and 70% alcohol-based hand sanitizer (antibacterial soap isn't necessary if you wash properly, and that way you won't will contribute to the world's growing antibiotic-resistant superbugs).
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb recently commented that the agency would be releasing a plan in the coming months to combat superbugs in the food supply.
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Brands, has faced renewed pressure from campaigners and investors to stop using chicken routinely treated with antibiotics, a factor in the emergence of drug-resistant superbugs such as MRSA. ind.
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Earlier this year, the World Health Organization highlighted the urgent threat posed by these superbugs by releasing a list of the 290 most dangerous bacteria in terms of antibiotic resistance.
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Removing the funding will mean less money for responses to outbreaks, less money to fight the opioid epidemic, less money to fight superbugs in hospitals, and less money for vaccination programs.
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But it's the minute secretions that these maggots leave behind that could hold the key for viable new medicines to help combat so-called superbugs like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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The announcement is also designed to push public agencies to support more research by pharmaceutical companies, which currently lack financial incentives to develop new drugs aimed at rare, but deadly, superbugs.
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But humans may be making it easier for these so-called superbugs to thrive—in part by taking more antibiotics than we need and not using them as recommended by doctors.
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The rise of "superbugs" resistant to drugs has been caused partly by the increased use and misuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs in the treatment of people and in farming.
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We might spend some time on threats like superbugs and nuclear war that could end humankind altogether and prevent trillions or quadrillions of humans from enjoying happy lives in the future.
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These "superbugs," as they're known, have become a huge public health threat around the world, killing thousands of people every year, and, researchers expect, many millions more in the coming decades.
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These "superbugs," as they're known, have become a huge public health threat around the world, killing thousands of people every year and, researchers expect, many millions more in the coming decades.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmakers' response to the threat posed by "superbugs" remains patchy even after years of warnings, according to the first analysis of individual companies' efforts to tackle the antibiotic resistance crisis.
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Among health risks that threaten mankind, the one that may prove most deadly is the rise of superbugs — drug-resistant bacteria that can make simple surgeries and medical treatments like chemotherapy impossible.
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Though superbugs can lurk on clothes, sinks, toilets and indeed almost any surface in a hospital, the most common way they get transmitted to patients is by the hands of health workers.
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The superbugs - malaria parasites that can beat off the best current treatments, artemisinin and piperaquine - have spread throughout Cambodia, with even fitter multidrug resistant parasites spreading in southern Laos and northeastern Thailand.
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Back in 2010, scientists found that platypus milk held properties that could be used to develop defences against superbugs — nasty bacteria that have built up a resistance to antimicrobial treatments like antibiotics.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The pharmaceutical industry should match its words with action on researching new antibiotics to address the threat posed by drug-resistant superbugs, a former UK government adviser said on Wednesday.
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An examination of cases across the country reveals a system that protects the healthcare facilities where superbugs thrive, while leaving patients, their families and the broader public ignorant of potentially deadly threats.
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Civilian hospitals are understaffed, underfunded and overburdened, and superbugs made the civilian population in war zones an object of fear, said Dr. Christian Haggenmiller, a former senior NATO medical officer in Afghanistan.
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While the U.S. FDA has been pushing for newer versions of antibiotics, drugmakers have shied away from developing the treatments, as combating antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, popularly known as superbugs, becomes increasingly challenging.
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If we could no longer use antibiotics in treatment, it would mean routine infections would become dangerous and potentially fatal, so scientists are scrambling to find alternative ways to fight these superbugs.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The spread of superbugs resistant to antimicrobial drugs shows no sign of slowing in Europe, health officials said on Tuesday, making food poisoning and other infections more difficult to treat.
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The group will work with independent experts to set new factory standards and review supply chains to ensure antibiotic waste does not enter waterways, where it can lead to the breeding of superbugs.
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The review was chaired by economist Jim O'Neill and he warned in the report that the world was already witnessing the alarming rise of "superbugs" that doctors are powerless to prevent or cure.
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Superbugs will kill 220 million people a year by 2050 — more than cancer does now — if the world does not take action immediately, a major report commissioned by the British government has found.
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Superbugs will kill 10 million people a year by 2050 — more than cancer does now — if the world does not take action immediately, a major report commissioned by the British government has found.
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Experts have been warning for years that we're approaching a post-antibiotic era — a time when our antibiotics are pretty much useless and drug-resistant superbugs can all too easily decimate our health.
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Turmoil in the Mediterranean and Iraq are also featured today, as well as a look at superbugs: What causes these infections, and what does the CDC recommend as a strategy to deal with them?
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Working in conjunction with NASA, lead researcher Dr. Anita Goel hopes that by sending MRSA bacteria to a zero-gravity environment, we can better understand how superbugs mutate to become resistant to available antibiotics.
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By signing onto the declaration, governments and intergovernmental organizations like the World Health Organization are taking on more responsibility and committing to playing a major role in the fight against antibiotic resistance and superbugs.
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Because it's cultivated, it can also be enhanced to be more nutritious or less fatty, and doesn't need to use antibiotics, which, when used in farming, contribute to the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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Within a few decades, we'll enter the …Read more ReadIn an effort to develop new drugs, scientists are searching far and wide for bacteria and other microorganisms that might be used to combat superbugs.
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The United States continues to face significant health security threats — from the bioterrorism threats posed by ISIS and North Korea to natural threats from pandemic influenza and antibiotic resistant bacteria (better known as "superbugs").
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The activity of manuka honey has been tested against a diverse range of microbes, particularly those that cause wound infections, and it inhibits problematic bacterial pathogens, including superbugs that are resistant to multiple antibiotics.
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In any case, it's a good thing the US Army has its Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases to counteract the development or weaponization of superbugs and viruses for use against the United States.
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One 2018 paper even found that several strains of bacteria were becoming "more tolerant" of alcohol-based hand sanitizers — and could one day be resistant to them, the way superbugs are resistant to antibiotics.
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This is critical since the bacteria that causes Lyme disease is known to morph itself into different strains and some doctors worry it may turn into superbugs in patients exposed to long-term antibiotic use.
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Drug-resistant superbugs are growing threat worldwide and a major review published last week called for new steps to address the problem, including limits on antibiotic use in agriculture and investment in finding new drugs.
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Pharmexcil said in a statement it agreed with the fact that there was a serious threat to public health from the emerging antibiotic resistance bacteria (superbugs) which is due to various reasons including environmental control.
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The three most urgent superbugs for which we need new antibiotics are Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacteriaceae, which includes E. coli, a bacterium that can be spread through food and make people very ill.
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It would have adverse consequences on our country's ability to respond to new outbreaks of infectious diseases as well as to treat the "superbugs" that have started to have a significant impact on patient care.
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The European Commission said on Thursday its policy-makers are reviewing strategy to fight superbugs after EU research found growing levels of drug resistance in bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as Salmonella and Campylobacter.
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But what some vegans may not realize is that just eschewing animal products doesn't absolve them of any responsibility for the rise of antibiotic resistant superbugs, at least as it relates to the food supply.
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An estimated 70 percent of bacteria are already resistant to at least one antibiotic that is commonly used to treat them, making the evolution of such superbugs one of the biggest threats facing medicine today.
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We've reported on Dear Leaders egging each other towards the brink of nuclear war, superbugs becoming impossible to eradicate with antibiotics, and governments preparing for the asteroid that will send us the way of the dinosaurs.
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The CDC, World Health Organization and other groups warn that it's only a matter of time before people start becoming infected with ultimate superbugs that cannot be killed by any of the antibiotics in the arsenal.
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Watch the VICE News documentary Superbugs: The Dark Side of India's Drug Boom: Since the review began in mid-2014, 1 million people have died from such infections, and bacteria resistant to colistin have been discovered.
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Colistin, which has been used for more than 50 years in both animals and people, is given in human medicine as a last-line treatment for infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria, or so-called "superbugs".
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Thirteen leading drugmakers promised last month to clean up pollution from factories making antibiotics and take steps to curb overuse of the medicines as part of a drive to fight the rise of drug-resistant superbugs.
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The patient is well now, but the case raises the specter of superbugs that could cause untreatable infections, because the bacteria can easily transmit their resistance to other germs that are already resistant to additional antibiotics.
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In that case, simply choosing a differently-shaped sink could keep superbugs in the sink and away from people who got to the hospital to get better, not become a breeding ground for super-strength bacteria.
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Consumer safety and researchers have warned for years that the overuse of the medicines can help give rise to antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that threaten human health, and in recent years its become a point of contention.
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In 2015, the FDA ordered Pentax and two other scope manufacturers Olympus Corp and Fujifilm Holdings Corp to conduct surveillance studies after the spread of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" at U.S. and European hospitals from contaminated duodenoscopes.
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Tracking the use of antibiotics and growth of superbugs on farms is a challenge everywhere, but it's especially problematic in low- and middle-income countries, where there's spotty lab capacity and disease surveillance systems in place.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Shortages of some life-saving antibiotics are putting growing numbers of patients at risk and fuelling the evolution of "superbugs" that do not respond to modern medicines, according to a new report on Thursday.
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But antibiotic shortages can have especially dire consequences, since doctors have to resort to sub-optimal treatments that are less efficient at killing specific pathogens, leading to the rise of resistant bacteria or so-called superbugs.
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Because lefamulin belongs to a new class of medicines which prevents the growth of a protein that helps bacteria grow, the drug could be effective in combating "superbugs," or bacteria that are increasingly resistant to older antibiotics.
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The search for effective ways to kill superbugs has gotten so desperate that the US Navy is building a library of 300 sewer viruses that could be deployed in a century-old approach known as phage therapy.
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Basically, our willy nilly use of antibiotics to treat illness and our irresponsible antibiotic use in animals have created bacteria that have become superbugs that are now immune to those antibiotics and could lead to a pandemic.
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The threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to global health is big enough that this year the World Health Organization for the first time published a list of the 12 superbugs that pose the greatest threat to humans.
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World leaders agreed Wednesday on steps to curb the rapid rise of drug resistance, the first global effort to stop the spread of dangerous superbugs that are fast becoming immune to many of the most critical medicines.
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The recent discovery of a CRISPR-Cas defense which robs the phage of the machinery it needs to replicate is just one of the many ingenious defenses we will no doubt encounter as we continue to fight superbugs.
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Studies have shown that aquatic animals are adversely affected by these hormones, with some male fish developing female sex organs, and there are concerns that long-term exposure to a tainted water supply can lead to more superbugs.
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O'Dea told CNN that seagulls can travel some 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from their nests, meaning there's a risk that the birds can carry superbugs over vast distances, but more research is needed to definitively answer the question.
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Collective action needs to be taken against superbugs around the world, as the continued rise in antimicrobial resistance is estimated by 2050 to lead to 10 million people dying every year and costing up to $100 trillion worldwide.
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Watch the VICE News documentary: Superbugs: The Dark Side of India's Drug Boom: "There was, if not complicity — and there is no smoking gun — there was certainly incompetence in not being able to contain the violence," said Ganguly.
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The World Health Organization warned on Monday that a dozen antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" pose an enormous threat to human health, and urged hospital infection-control experts and pharmaceutical researchers to focus on fighting the most dangerous pathogens first.
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Tossing leftover antibiotics in the trash helps prevent people from taking them in the future for illnesses they can't cure, which contributes to the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that can't be treated with available medicines, Copp said.
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The good news is that in 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved a cadre of new antibiotics to confront the rising threat of superbugs, including eravacycline, plazomicin and omadacycline, and we can expect even more this year.
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Scientists and public health experts for years have warned that the regular use of antibiotics to promote growth and prevent illness in healthy farm animals contributes to the development and spread of drug-resistant superbugs that can infect people.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Eleven biotech companies and research teams in Britain and the United States were awarded up to $48 million in funding on Thursday to speed development of new antibiotics powerful enough to take on the world's deadliest superbugs.
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To truly protect ourselves, we need to continue to prioritize curbing our use of antibiotics to prevent overuse that leads to faster resistance, and keep looking for other kinds of treatments—like bacteriophages—to bolster our fight against superbugs.
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While regulations and consumer pressure have encouraged some chains to cut back on the use of antibiotics, some experts worry it's not enough to stave off development of "superbugs" that can't be killed by some of our current medicines.
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A young scientist stood up to superbugsThe rise of so-called 'superbugs'—newly incurable STDs like gonorrhea, for instance—is one of those horror-show problems of the modern world that most people, frankly, would rather not think about.
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"We've known for a long time that UV [ultraviolet] light has the potential to reduce surgical site infections, because UV can efficiently kill all bacteria, including drug-resistant bacteria and even so-called superbugs," Brenner said in a interview.
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By positioning the future leaders in the fields of medicine and biomedical engineering to harness the full potential of data science and machine learning, we can slow down these superbugs and prevent millions of unnecessary deaths from bacterial infections.
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A weak defense against 'superbugs' Lethal bacteria are showing resistance to more and more antibiotics – a "nightmare scenario" for public health officials – and financial and legal hurdles are making it harder than ever for science to create effective new drugs.
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This year the U.S. recorded its first two cases of superbugs -- in May, a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman showed the presence of a rare kind of E. coli infection, the first known case of its kind in the United States.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug 23 (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of important human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast-food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - More than 80 international drug and biotech firms urged governments to work with them to combat drug-resistant superbugs which could kill tens of millions of people within decades unless progress is made and new antibiotics found.
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LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - British biotech firm Destiny Pharma is aiming to raise more than 10 million pounds ($12.9 million) of new equity to develop drugs that target antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, or superbugs, in hospitals, it said on Friday.
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Describing drug resistance as "one of the biggest threats to modern medicine", the OECD said, however, that if nothing is done, superbugs could kill some 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia alone over the next 30 years.
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Last week, amid other pressing business, 193 nations at the United Nations General Assembly signed a declaration summoning each of them to a war against a powerful and resourceful enemy: superbugs that have learned to evade science's last remaining defenses.
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The irony is that the hospitals that see the most superbugs are often the best ones we have, for the simple reason that they have the most sophisticated diagnostic platforms, the most powerful antibiotics and the experts to administer them.
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According to a Bloomberg report, airlines that have been involved with evacuating passengers from outbreak hotspots have particularly come to rely on heavy-duty disinfectants, the type which hospitals use to kill microbes like herpes and "superbugs" like MRSA on surfaces.
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Drug-resistant infections - or "superbugs" – could claim 10 million lives a year and could cost a cumulative $100 trillion of economic output by 13 if the world does not act to slow down the rise of drug resistance, a new report warned.
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These antibacterial drugs have been hugely effective in the seven decades since, but there's a consequence: The more that antibiotics are consumed, the more resistant infectious bugs become to these drugs, possibly giving rise to "superbugs" that are resistant to known treatments.
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Watch the VICE News documentary Superbugs: The Dark Side of India's Drug Boom Under three UN drug conventions that date back to 1961, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) keeps tabs the licit consumption of controlled substances, including morphine and other opioid analgesics.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The drug industry hit back on Thursday at a proposal to charge firms a levy to help fund development of new antibiotics and said the idea, set out in a high-level UK review of drug-resistant superbugs, would "undermine goodwill".
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The story of her efforts and how she persuaded researchers to create a cocktail of bacteria-gobbling viruses harvested from sewage, known as phages, to kill one of the most lethal, powerful superbugs is told in the couple's new memoir, The Perfect Predator.
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On the other, we face an uncertain future of myriad threats, from catastrophic climate change; to technological inequality and entrenched, systemic discrimination; and more esoteric existential risks including superbugs, asteroids, food system collapse, superintelligent AI, and whatever else you can think of.
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And it turns out the individual choice we make about how and whether to use antibiotics is a big one, as shown in this graphic below: In a recent Lancet series on superbugs, researchers visualized the various modifiable drivers of antibiotic resistance.
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By cloning DNA out of a kind of bacteria-laden mud soup, and reinstalling these foreign gene sequences into microorganisms that can be grown in the lab, he's devised a method for discovering antibiotics that could soon treat infectious diseases and fight drug-resistant superbugs.
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The biggest threat to global health isn't another Ebola outbreak or the spread of the Zika virus; rather, it's the spread of antibiotic resistant "superbugs," according to the United Nations, which announced an agreement Tuesday with 193 member countries to fight the overuse of antibiotics.
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But as a result of these tragic cases, the agency is now demanding that all investigational trials preemptively screen their donors for risk factors that would make them more likely to have superbugs, as well as to test their donor samples for these bacteria.
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Thirteen leading drugmakers promised last week to clean up pollution from factories making antibiotics as part of a drive to fight the rise of drug-resistant superbugs, while United Nations member countries pledged for the first time to take steps to tackle the threat.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parent of Burger King and Tim Hortons on Thursday vowed to cut the use of antibiotics in its chicken supply, joining other major fast-food chain operators in the battle against the rise of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.
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A small number of researchers warned that the rise of "superbugs" posed a looming public-health crisis of unprecedented proportions—a possible return to a pre-modern medical age, when common infections were deadly and simple surgeries were often too life-threatening to consider.
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LOS ANGELES, June 22 (Reuters) - The parent of Burger King and Tim Hortons on Thursday vowed to cut the use of antibiotics in its chicken supply, joining other major fast-food chain operators in the battle against the rise of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.
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All of the above work — the superbug bird-dogging, the research into and use of genetically modified phages, and their application in agriculture and OTC uses — are happening now, and will likely continue to grow as superbugs continue to kill, and novel uses for phages are discovered.
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If this event happens again and again—and barring the discovery of a new or old drug that can step in where colistin failed—we'd be left with a reality where some infections, especially those in hospitals or other areas where superbugs are prevalent, are simply untreatable.
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The "burden of infection" -- measured in the number of cases, attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) -- of these superbugs is equivalent to that of flu, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which conducted the research.
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And researchers are hoping that the moment lasts long enough for this to become not just a reliable weapon in our war against superbugs, but also potentially a tool that could do anything from delivering cancer drugs to parts of the body, to making our food supply safer.
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Isolation rooms like this one, sprinkled through its wards, have long been used for the kinds of patients who in other European countries are often in open-plan wards: those who harbour superbugs like MRSA (short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a bacterium resistant to several widely used antibiotics.
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An illustration of Escherichia coli, a common bacteria that can develop antibiotic resistanceIllustration: CDCFor 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.
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The findings highlight the omnipresence of superbugs and the peril they might pose even for healthy people participating in water sports, said lead author Anne Leonard, a research fellow at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School in Truro, England.
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Scientists warn that the routine use of antibiotics to promote growth and prevent illness in healthy farm animals contributes to the rise of dangerous infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs, which kill at least 23,000 Americans each year and pose a major threat to global health.
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Sanderson is the only large U.S. chicken producer that has not made a commitment to limit its use of those drugs, as public health experts raise the alarm about the link between farm use of antibiotics and the rise of human infections from drug-resistant bacteria called superbugs.
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To anyone else it might just seem like a funny comment on how germaphobic some people are, but the truth is, we are way too dependent on antibiotics and it has created dangerous "superbugs" that are resistant to the drugs we depend on to keep bacterial infections in check.
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While most studies focus on the environmental costs of personal wipes, parallels can be drawn to our overall growing dependence on disposable cleaning products: They contain microplastics that are not biodegradable, they're not safe for our sewer systems, and their use can contribute to the rise of superbugs.
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That's a lot of money, and a lot of people who aren't either getting completely better (which leads to the evolution of drug-resistant superbugs — illnesses that no longer respond to traditional treatments) or who are messing up expensive, vital clinical trials that prove the efficacy of new types of therapies.
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Superbugs are worse than we thought: "Drug-resistant germs sicken about 3 million people every year in the United States and kill about 35,000, representing a much larger public health threat than previously understood, according to a long-awaited report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," our colleague Lena H. Sun reports.
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According to Nural Cokcetin, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, who studies the antimicrobial and prebiotic properties of honey, there have been many scientific studies showing that manuka honey stimulates wound healing, and has anti-inflammatory and potent antimicrobial abilities, meaning it can kill microorganisms that cause infections, including antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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In the future, we may all be using a certain type of UV light to kill germs in offices, in schools or even in our own homes, said Dr. David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University in the US. Superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to traditional antibiotics, are a growing problem worldwide.
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This partly has to do with the fact that some regulators view injecting people with a replicating biological agent as too risky, and partly to do with the fact that there is little to no market incentive for pharmaceutical companies to pursue bacteriophages since there is little use in patenting them (a similar bacteriophage cocktail wouldn't be covered by a patent.) With the increasing awareness of the threat posed by antibiotic resistant superbugs—the proliferation of which the Obama administration called a "crisis" back in 22009—phage research has come back into vogue in recent years.
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