Germ Fighters May Lead to Hardier Germs
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Old-fashioned hygiene is advised in the war on drug-resistant staph.
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A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday.
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Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests.
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Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you're a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers, a new research report shows.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout.
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Drug-resistant staph infections are scary. But theyâre nothing new.
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Scientists believe they may have found a new way to fight a potentially dangerous stomach infection.
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Scientists say they have found how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections.
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A strain of bacteria that has been plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. A study by McGill University epidemiologist Vivian Loo looked at incidents of Clostridium
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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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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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There are reports a bacteria plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. After studying the spread of Clostridium difficile bacteria at eight hospitals in Montreal, a
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As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than a dozen cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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NEW research has added to evidence that a bacteria that causes gastrointestinal disease in farm animals may be responsible for Crohn&#39;s disease in humans.
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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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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...