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We may have a new weapon to fight dangerous superbugs (and we’re gonna need it)

sudshr47 August 6, 2018

There is a version of the near future where antibiotic resistant bacteria become more deadly than cancer.

A study released back in 2016 predicted that, if left unchecked, these types of bacteria could claim more than 10 million lives a year by 2050. Cancer currently kills 8 million people annually.

In the U.S. alone, antibiotic resistant bacteria already kills 20,000 people per year and infects millions more, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

It’s obvious that something needs to be done to mitigate the potential catastrophe, but so far an answer has been out of reach. Read more…

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The CDC is terrified of these germs, so it’s trying to contain them

sudshr47 April 8, 2018

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can’t stop microbes from mutating and becoming resistant to even our strongest drugs. But it is working harder than ever to come up with an effective containment strategy to stop the spread of thes…

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Antibiotic use skyrockets globally, stoking fears of tough ‘superbugs’

sudshr47 March 26, 2018

Antibiotics made their big debut during World War II, when the U.Spumped out increasingly potent doses of penicillin to successfully combat bacterial infections in troops.
These antibacterial drugs have been hugely effective in the seven decades sinc…

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Platypus milk is not a new trendy milk, but it could save lives

sudshr47 March 15, 2018

Platypus milk: It’s not the new almond milk, but it could save lives.

Milk from Australia’s duck-billed, egg-laying monotreme could be crucial to the fight against antibiotic resistance, thanks to new research by Australian scientists.

Back in 2010, scientists found that platypus milk held properties that could be used to develop defences against superbugs — nasty bacteria that have built up a resistance to antimicrobial treatments like antibiotics.

Now, in what WHO has dubbed the “post antibiotic era,” researchers at CSIRO have teamed up with Deakin University to understand how an unusual protein found in platypus milk, with rather protective antibacterial characteristics, could help to fight these superbugs. Read more…

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Doctors find virus in a pond, use it to destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria in man’s heart

sudshr47 March 11, 2018

After Yale doctors replaced a major blood vessel in a 76-year-old man’s heart, his chest became infected with bacteria.

The usual solution would be to destroy the harmful bacteria with antibiotics. But the doctors found their antibiotics wouldn’t kill the microbe, P. aeruginosa, which like many bacteria in recent years, had become resistant to traditional drugs.

So, doctors turned to an experimental solution, involving a bacteria-killing virus known as a bacteriophage.

Running out of options, doctors employed this still-experimental treatment, inserting hundreds of thousands of viruses — known to combat this very bacteria — into the man’s chest. On Thursday, Yale announced the treatment worked and published the study in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. Read more…

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