Posts Tagged ‘antibiotic resistance’
New Hope in the Fight against Antibiotic-Resistance
In the ninety years since antibiotics were first discovered, they have saved innumerable live. Unfortunately, they have also given rise to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The issue of antibiotic resistance is so serious that the World Health Organization (WHO) has called it “one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today.”…
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Breakthrough in Treatment of Highly-Resistant Bacteria
Each year in the United States, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are responsible for approximately 2 million illnesses and nearly 25,000 deaths. And the number of drug-resistant bacteria is rising rapidly. The growing health crisis due to drug-resistant bacteria is exacerbated because the population most likely to suffer serious health consequences from them are the most vulnerable: infants,…
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