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80-Year-Old Antibiotic Shows Promise Against Superbug Crisis: Report
Researchers are revisiting streptothricin, an antibiotic developed over 80 years ago and previously sidelined due to toxicity concerns, now being studied as nourseothricin.
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40 Million Projected To Die by 2050 Because Of Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, as the researchers called for action to avoid this grim scenario.
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Woman In US Dies After Superbug Picked Up In India, 13 Antibiotics Failed, Say Doctors
A woman in the US died after being infected by a superbug most likely during her visit to India, say doctors who found that the "nightmare" bacteria was resistant to all available antibiotics.
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Cipla, Wockhardt, Other Drug Makers Pledge To Clean Up Antibiotic Factories
Thirteen leading drug makers promised on Tuesday 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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Drug-Resistant Infections Could Spark Financial Crisis: Study
The spread of superbugs that are resistant to all known drug treatments could spark a global financial crisis on the level of the 2008 meltdown or worse, a World Bank-led study warned on Monday.
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WHO Warns of Widespread Misunderstanding of Superbug Threat
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), people across the world are confused about the major threat to public health posed by drug-resistant superbugs and do not know how to stop that risk growing.
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WHO Warns of Widespread Misunderstanding of Superbug Threat
People across the world are confused about the major threat to public health posed by drug-resistant superbugs and do not know how to stop that risk growing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
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Second Los Angeles Hospital Identifies 'Superbug' Infections
A second top Los Angeles hospital has reported an outbreak of drug-resistant "superbug" infections, and dozens more potential exposures, from procedures performed with a fiber-optic instrument called a duodenoscope.
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Youth Fighting 'Superbug' Infection From Los Angeles Outbreak
An 18-year-old man who was one of seven patients infected with a drug-resistant bacterial "superbug" during a medical procedure in Los Angeles was under 24-hour monitoring at a hospital as he fought a severe infection, his attorney said on Friday.
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Los Angeles Hospital Warns 179 Patients Possibly Exposed to 'Superbug'
A large Los Angeles teaching hospital has told scores of patients they may have been exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial "superbug" during endoscopy procedures that infected seven patients and contributed to two deaths.
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Unchecked Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million A Year, Cost $100 Trillion
Drug-resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people a year and cost up to $100 trillion by 2050 if their rampant global spread is not halted, according to a British government-commissioned review.
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UK's Cameron Calls for Global Action on Superbug Threat
Prime Minister David Cameron called on Wednesday for global action to tackle the threat of drug-resistant superbugs and said Britain planned to take a leading role in finding ways to spur the development of new antibiotics.
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80-Year-Old Antibiotic Shows Promise Against Superbug Crisis: Report
Researchers are revisiting streptothricin, an antibiotic developed over 80 years ago and previously sidelined due to toxicity concerns, now being studied as nourseothricin.
-
40 Million Projected To Die by 2050 Because Of Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, as the researchers called for action to avoid this grim scenario.
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Woman In US Dies After Superbug Picked Up In India, 13 Antibiotics Failed, Say Doctors
A woman in the US died after being infected by a superbug most likely during her visit to India, say doctors who found that the "nightmare" bacteria was resistant to all available antibiotics.
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Cipla, Wockhardt, Other Drug Makers Pledge To Clean Up Antibiotic Factories
Thirteen leading drug makers promised on Tuesday 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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Drug-Resistant Infections Could Spark Financial Crisis: Study
The spread of superbugs that are resistant to all known drug treatments could spark a global financial crisis on the level of the 2008 meltdown or worse, a World Bank-led study warned on Monday.
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WHO Warns of Widespread Misunderstanding of Superbug Threat
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), people across the world are confused about the major threat to public health posed by drug-resistant superbugs and do not know how to stop that risk growing.
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WHO Warns of Widespread Misunderstanding of Superbug Threat
People across the world are confused about the major threat to public health posed by drug-resistant superbugs and do not know how to stop that risk growing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
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Second Los Angeles Hospital Identifies 'Superbug' Infections
A second top Los Angeles hospital has reported an outbreak of drug-resistant "superbug" infections, and dozens more potential exposures, from procedures performed with a fiber-optic instrument called a duodenoscope.
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Youth Fighting 'Superbug' Infection From Los Angeles Outbreak
An 18-year-old man who was one of seven patients infected with a drug-resistant bacterial "superbug" during a medical procedure in Los Angeles was under 24-hour monitoring at a hospital as he fought a severe infection, his attorney said on Friday.
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Los Angeles Hospital Warns 179 Patients Possibly Exposed to 'Superbug'
A large Los Angeles teaching hospital has told scores of patients they may have been exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial "superbug" during endoscopy procedures that infected seven patients and contributed to two deaths.
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Unchecked Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million A Year, Cost $100 Trillion
Drug-resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people a year and cost up to $100 trillion by 2050 if their rampant global spread is not halted, according to a British government-commissioned review.
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UK's Cameron Calls for Global Action on Superbug Threat
Prime Minister David Cameron called on Wednesday for global action to tackle the threat of drug-resistant superbugs and said Britain planned to take a leading role in finding ways to spur the development of new antibiotics.
