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10/01/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Pandemic cholera is naturally resistant to antibiotics: Scientists have discovered it is different than other drug-resistant bacteria

Cholera is dubbed as the first “global pandemic,” and for good reason — the disease has spawned seven pandemics around the world, and is still considered a threat to public health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The disease is known to be damaging once it hits, killing people “within hours” if not properly treated. […]

07/29/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Is this the next superbug? Understanding drug-resistant candida and why antibiotics don’t work

Move over, superbug: The next drug-resistant pathogen could be a fungus that already calls our body home. In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases last year, researchers noted an uptick in reports of invasive Candida infections that are resistant to antifungal agents. The article, which discussed the current trends in multidrug resistance, revealed that cases of […]

08/04/2017 / By JD Heyes

Researchers have identified the 12 DEADLIEST drug-resistant bacteria: Here’s how to avoid infection

Thanks to decades of overprescribing antibiotics, the world now has a major problem with a rising number of bacterial infections: There are several now that are almost entirely resistant to all known anti-bacterial medications, many of them deadly. In fact, as noted by Science Alert, researchers have now identified a dozen of the most dangerous […]

01/19/2017 / By Natural News Editors

Family of deadly and highly drug-resistant bacteria spreads faster than scientists believed possible

A family of highly drug-resistant and potentially deadly bacteria may be spreading more widely—and more stealthily—than previously thought, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. (Article by Medicalxpress.com) Researchers examined carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) causing disease in four U.S. hospitals. They found […]

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