Remember last year when we kept writing about the incredibly petrifying "sex superbugs" (aka drug-resistant strains of STIs, including gonorrhea) that cropped up all over the world? Well, they're back. And this time, closer to home. Two cases of an infection feared to be "worse than AIDS" were...
According to a new study, the use of antibiotics in pigs is coming back to haunt us. Researchers now say they have validated our worst fears: Antibiotics in livestock feed is promoting the superbug in humans. More »Post from: Blisstree
Not only are there more bed bugs about in North America in Europe, but more of them appear to be carrying two types of superbugs - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) - bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and very hard to...
Using disinfectants could help superbug bacteria become resistant not only to the disinfectant itself but to antibiotics, even if they have not been exposed to them, according to a new study from Ireland: the findings could be important step in the fight to prevent superbugs spreading in...