Four emerging bacteria: So tiny, so deadly
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An outbreak of water and food-borne disease called acute gastroenteritis stormed all 45 towns of Pangasinan on July 22. Department of Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit reported that the
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A new study suggests that a solution to drug-resistant bacteria like staph could be forcing the bugs to kill themselves.
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U.S. scientists say they have analyzed the genetic makeup of an entire community of bacteria that live inside an unusual marine worm.
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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While some scientists try to build nano machines from scratch, others are discovering uses for single-celled organisms that are already available. By Monya Baker from Wired magazine.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia and killed more than 23,000 will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases
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Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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Using a creature as hideous as any sci-fi monster, scientists have produced a one-minute horror movie starring a menacing, spidery virus swooping in on a hapless blob of bacteria.
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WASHINGTON: World Health Organisation and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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A mixture of six bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on meat and poultry to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday.
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Advancements in nanotechnology are increasingly being applied in the water-purification industry, where keeping harmful microbes out of drinking water requires nano-scale innovation. By Michael Bradbury.
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If antibiotic succeeds in testing, it would be the 1st new treatment for the disease in 41 years. WASHINGTON -- A novel type of antibiotic has been shown in laboratory tests to powerfully attack and control
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If inhaled, the bacteria can cause Legionnaireâs disease, a potentially fatal pneumonia-like condition especially hazardous in infants, the elderly and those with weakened immunity.
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Bacteria that cause a troublesome and sometimes fatal type of diarrhea in hospital patients can be found in and on the bodies of people who have no symptoms at all, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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A strain of the C. difficile bacterium with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest that this strain may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of