Drug-resistant bugs on rise outside hospital: study
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Drug-resistant bacteria are infecting more people in community settings such as prisons and public housing, and not just in hospitals where such "superbugs" can run rampant, researchers said on Monday.
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A health trust may have to bring in new practices to better monitor the hospital bug Clostridium difficile.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults. That&#39;s according to two of several
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A test can tell if TB patients have stopped taking their medicine, which increases the risk of drug resistant strains.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Over-prescribing of antibiotics in Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal and France is causing high rates of antibiotic resistance," researchers said on Friday.
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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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New data from the city's Health Department show an increase in H.I.V. infection rates among young men.
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People holidaying in exotic places without being vaccinated is fuelling a rise in dangerous diseases like typhoid, warn doctors.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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The flu bug appears to develop a rapid resistance to one of the drugs envisioned as a front-line defence against the next major influenza pandemic.
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Human skin teems with a zoo of strange microbes in colonies that are nearly unique from person to person and many of which are practically unknown to science, new research finds. Some of the bugs are permanent residents, while others come and go.
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NEW YORK  - Among young children with influenza, virus mutations that are resistant to Tamiflu arise in about 20 percent of those treated with the drug, Japanese researchers report.
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Two drug-resistant "superbugs" are becoming more common across the United States including one that causes hard-to-treat ear infections in children, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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(CP) - New antibiotic-resistant pathogens, airborne mercury and urban sprawl are threatening the health of the Great Lakes and millions of people who live around the bodies of fresh water, a report to the Canadian and U.S. governments concludes.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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A once-rare drug-resistant germ now appears to cause more than half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms, say researchers who documented the superbug's startling spread in the general population.