Nov 14, 2019 | News
For local reference / For original 2019-11-14 report please refer to https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/biggest-threats.html 2019 AR Threats Report pdf icon 2013 AR Threats Report In 2013, CDC published the first AR Threats Report, which sounded the alarm to the...
Nov 13, 2019 | News
CNN coverage of the CDC Antibiotic Resistance Report of 2019 Every 15 minutes, someone in the United States dies of a superbug that has learned to outsmart even our most sophisticated antibiotics, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and...
Nov 13, 2019 | News
The policy change, for the virulent drug-resistant germ Candida auris, came as the C.D.C. reported that more people are dying of drug-resistant infections than it previously estimated. Nearly 35,000 people in the United States are dying each year from drug-resistant...
Oct 23, 2019 | News
The theme park was the site of a major outbreak about five years ago. A person who was infectious with measles visited Disneyland last week, leading public health officials to warn that hundreds of other people at the theme park were possibly exposed to the highly...
Oct 21, 2019 | News
Doctors in France say they witnessed a real-life horror tale involving an antibiotic-resistant superbug. In less than a month, their patient’s infection evolved resistance to the last-resort drug they had used to treat it. Thankfully, the doctors were still able to...
Oct 11, 2019 | News
A second person has died following an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in North Carolina, while 88 people have been hospitalized, state health officials announced on Thursday. As of Oct. 9, there were 134 confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease or Pontiac...
Oct 8, 2019 | News
Passengers on flight out of San Francisco may have been exposed to Hepatitis A The Mecklenburg County Health Department says it contacted 18 Charlotte-area passengers who were on the American Airlines flight Sept. 21 from San Francisco to Charlotte. Spokeswoman...
Oct 7, 2019 | News
Enterococcus faecalis is typically described as a commensal bacterium – one of our “good bacteria” – but in patients with weakened immune systems, it can transfer DNA to other bacteria, in this case, providing genes for vancomycin resistance...
Oct 4, 2019 | News
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in North Carolina that’s killed at least one person and sickened 124 others has been linked to a hot tub display at a state fair, state health officials announced this week. Officials with the North Carolina Department of Health...
Oct 1, 2019 | News
Hospitals need to use non AMR causing anti microbial solutions, like BioProtect US A trip to hospital can play havoc with your gut bacteria. People treated for several days in an intensive care unit had their stomachs quickly colonised by harmful pathogens, tests...
Sep 30, 2019 | News
Antibiotic-resistant pathogens can be spread via washing machines. This has been proven by hygienists at the University of Bonn for a children’s hospital in which a Klebsiella oxytoca type was repeatedly transmitted to newborns. Fortunately, no dangerous infection...
Sep 26, 2019 | News
For the last 60 million years, fungus-growing ants have farmed fungi for food. In their cultivation of those fungi, they’ve successfully relied on bacteria-produced antimicrobial ingredients to protect their crops from other species of parasitic fungi. Now,...
Sep 26, 2019 | News
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that bacteria can change form to avoid being detected by antibiotics in the human body. Studying samples from elderly patients with recurring urinary tract infections, the Newcastle University team used state-of-the art...
Sep 23, 2019 | News
The answer to the threat from drug-resistant superbugs may have been found in green tea, scientists have revealed. A series of experiments showed that an antibiotic which is proving increasingly useless against serious infections regained its effectiveness when used...
Sep 22, 2019 | News
It looks like it’s time to pay the piper. The first extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strain of Salmonella typhimurium, called ST313 sublineage II.1, has cropped up in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This fails to respond to any of the antibiotics that are...
