via theStar.com By Jennifer Yang Global health reporter, theStar.comStory: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/04/30/drugresistant_bacteria_now_a_global_threat_says_who.html Growing fears of a post-antibacterial world could eventually become reality, as the WHO has released the results of its first global survey on the issue -the [...]
via RT.comStory: http://rt.com/news/155900-superbugs-un-antibiotic-resistance/"The implications will be devastating", warns Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security. What he's referring to is the now very real threat of long-term and wide-spread implications of drug-resistant superbugs, [...]
via CNBC.com By Mark Koba Senior Editor, CNBCStory: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101620396With an estimated 23 000 fatalities linked annually in the US to drug-resistant superbugs, the US government has begun to involve itself in the battle against such [...]
via Reuters.com By Kate KellandStory: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/30/us-health-antibiotics-idUSKBN0DG11E20140430 UN officials have announced that the occurrence of superbugs -bacteria strong enough to withstand antibiotics- is no longer a prediction, but is extending and proliferating throughout the world. The UN even [...]
Via Science Daily Apr. 24, 2013 — Antibiotic resistance is a global problem. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that for tuberculosis alone multi-drug resistance accounts for more than 150,000 deaths each year. WHO warns [...]
CNBC published a news item on Thursday April 4, expressing the challenge that superbugs, MRSA and CRE in particular, pose to our health care system. Dr. Cesar Arias, an associate professor of infectious diseases at the [...]
