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‘Impossible to treat’ superbugs on rise in Ukraine, scientists warn

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1 month, 1 week ago

Hospitals identified as hotspots for superbugs, not animals or environment: Study

India Today

A recent study on a common bacteria linked to infections in humans, highlights hospitals as the key breeding ground for strains that are both highly resistant to antibiotics and capable of causing severe illness. The study, conducted by researchers from the Indian Council of Medical Research, Cambridge University and Christian Medical College, Vellore, explored the spread of antimicrobial resistance by …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Drug-resistant superbugs: Ukraine's other wartime enemy

The Hindu

Ukrainian soldier Anton Sushko, severely wounded, thought he was finally safe when he spotted a rescue team after crawling for hours through the battlefield in eastern Ukraine. "Every blast is an open wound, and every open wound is an infection," Kosulnykov said, showing AFP slides of purulent lesions. By the time medical teams take a look, the wounds are often …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Drug-resistant superbugs projected to kill 39 million by 2050

The Hindu

Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, September 16, 2024, with the researchers urging action to avoid this grim scenario. More than a million people died from the superbugs -- also called antimicrobial resistance -- per year across the world between 1990 and 2021, …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era

Salon

The extreme heat that recently blanketed the United States is a clear sign of climate change. Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, occurs when bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens evolve to resist the effects of medications, making common infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, and death. Warmer temperatures can increase the reproduction rates of bacteria …

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6 months ago

Superbugs vs Covid-19: Comparing scale and severity of global health threats, preparing for next health catastrophe

Hindustan Times

The rise of drug-resistant superbugs presents a grave threat to global health that could surpass the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Superbugs vs Covid-19: Comparing scale and severity of global health threats, preparing for next health catastrophe Comparative Impact: Superbugs vs Covid-19 In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Shuchin Bajaj, Founder and Director at Ujala Cygnus Group of Hospitals, …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Antibiotics wreak havoc on the gut. Can we kill the bad bugs and spare the good ones?

LA Times

Inside every human is a thriving zoo of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microscopic organisms collectively known as the microbiome. “Increasingly, researchers are recognizing the benefits of protecting the human gut microbiome, particularly because its integrity and diversity is linked to metabolic influences on mental health and physical health conditions,” said Dr. Oladele A. Ogunseitan, a professor of population health …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Are scientists finally beating antimicrobial resistance?

Hindustan Times

Antimicrobial resistant infections kill millions every year. "Antibiotic resistance is still far from solved, but there has been a lot of progress in both better understanding and better practices for discovering new antibiotics," said Luis Pedro Coelho, a computational biologist at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. The study is proof we can be optimistic about AMR, said Sebastian Hiller, …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Superbugs pose graver threat than Covid-19. Here's all you need to know about antimicrobial resistance

Hindustan Times

As Covid-19 curve flattens, experts warn about the worrisome spike in drug-resistant superbugs that pose a greater risk that coronavirus and cause negative health outcomes as the bacteria is evolving and becoming resistant to existing antibiotics. With viruses, they often fade away as more people become immune but AMR doesn't work that way.” The emergence of drug-resistant superbugs poses significant …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Gender-neutral lavatories ‘have more germs than single-sex ones’

The Telegraph

Gender-neutral lavatories carry the most germs, research suggests. Scientists said the findings about gender-neutral lavatories, which also included disabled facilities, might reflect heavier overall use, on top of different attitudes to cleanliness between men and women. “For example, hand hygiene surveys show that women are more likely to clean their hands after bathroom use than men, so we decided to …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Going to war with the ‘superbugs’

The Hindu

It always helps when there is data, data from home, particularly when there is bad news afoot. A health ministry official assured that the current move would bring India’s GMP recommendations at par with global standards, especially those of the World Health Organization, and ensure production of globally acceptable quality of drugs. In the State, a survey conducted by the …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

A potent antibiotic has emerged in the battle against deadly, drug-resistant superbugs

LA Times

Acinetobacter baumannii, seen under a scanning electron microscope, is a gram-negative bacterium responsible for thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths in the U.S. each year. “The bacterial outer membrane is important for bacteria because it helps them to live in harsh conditions and to survive attacks by our immune system,” said Kenneth Bradley, Roche’s global chief of discovery for …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Superbugs, black holes, biodiversity in Costa Rican farms : Short Wave : NPR

NPR

What to know about the link between air pollution and superbugs Enlarge this image Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. They talk about how antibiotic resistance may spread through air pollution, magnetically halted black holes and how some farms are boosting biodiversity in Costa Rica. …

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1 year, 6 months ago

SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING | Will AI help us beat superbugs?

Hindustan Times

Drug-resistant microbes, better known as superbugs, are pervasive in hospitals and clinics. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and McMaster University, Ontario, is using deep learning — a kind of AI that attempts to simulate the way the brain works by learning from large data sets — to identify promising chemical compounds. Since the chemical universe …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Discovery of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in L.A. wastewater sparks worry

LA Times

The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Playa del Rey is the largest and oldest wastewater treatment plant in Los Angeles. Testing found antibiotic resistance genes on two novel small plasmids, circular pieces of DNA that can be shared among different types of unrelated bacteria, said researcher Adam Smith, associate professor of environmental engineering at USC, whose findings were published in …

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1 year, 10 months ago

A Game-Changer: India’s Under-Trial Drug Shows Promise Against Hospital Superbugs

News 18

Over a million people lose their lives due to antibiotic resistant superbugs every year – far more than those killed by Malaria. The life-saving drug, WCK 5222, developed by one of India’s oldest drug makers — Mumbai-based Wockhardt — has now shown that it can act against the deadly multi-drug resistance gram-negative bacteria or superbugs. SAVING LIVES ONE AT A …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Stakeholders must collaborate to reduce resistance to antibiotics

Hindustan Times

One of the greatest medical discoveries during the past eight decades has been that of antibiotics. This undesired use of antibiotics facilitates selection of resistant germs which, through the food chain, reach humans causing difficult to treat infections. The United Nations General Assembly, WHO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, UNEP, G7, G20, G77, Association of South-East Asian …

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2 years, 1 month ago

UK rivers are a ‘superbug-polluted’ health threat, study finds

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Researchers have now provided alarming new detail on the “far-reaching implications” farm waste has for our waterways, with rivers …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Antimicrobial resistance is a silent killer, say doctors

The Hindu

At a conference on tackling antimicrobial resistance, experts called for measures to develop strategies to tackle the serious threat and the need for new antibiotics, molecules and diagnostics. Renu Swarup, former Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, said, “We have exposed all microbes, the small pool of antibiotics that we have and have made everything resistant.” She termed …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Viruses to Fight Superbugs? Scientists Are Working on It

Wired

In 2015, Steffanie Strathdee, distinguished professor of medicine and associate dean of global health sciences at the University of California, San Diego, was confronted with an antimicrobial-resistant infection the likes of which she had never come across. Back then, she says, it was seen as a “really wimpy organism.” But with antimicrobial resistance on the rise, A. baumannii has evolved …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Study Finds 38% ICU Patients with Superbug Infections Die in 2 Weeks. Why Is This Worrying?

News 18

A recent study on hospital-acquired infections has revealed a widespread presence of superbugs, or drug-resistant micro-organisms, in infection cases. The newly-formed Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance-India, a central government effort between All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi, the Indian Council for Medical Research, and the CDC, has found that superbugs were found in 3,080 blood samples and another 792 urine …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria: New drug can fight off 300 different types of superbugs

Daily Mail

Scientists have developed a drug that is hoped could lead the fight against superbugs. Fabimycin — a man-made antibiotic — was found to kill hundreds of bacteria that are resistant to common medicines. Researchers found fabimycin — a yet to be approved antibiotic — works against infections caused by 300 types of gram-negative bacteria WHAT IS ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE? It was …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Antibiotics from plastics! Study reveals use of microplastics in water bodies

Live Mint

As the world struggles to combat pollution in various aspects-- soil, air, water, noise-- a recent study published in the journal, 'American Society for Microbiology' have found that plastic pollution may after all serve as the source for antibiotics in ocean. Scientists and experts who conducted the study have pointed out that at least 5-13 million tonnes of plastic waste …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Op-Ed: We’re losing the fight against superbugs, but there’s still hope

LA Times

This scanning electron shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. Hospital stewardship programs — which manage the careful and optimal use of antimicrobial treatments — also had to redirect their limited resources away from antibiotic use to focus on the complex administration of COVID-19 therapeutics. Because doctors prudently limit their use of antimicrobials to avoid further resistance, there isn’t high demand to …

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‘Impossible to treat’ superbugs on rise in Ukraine, scientists warn

Hospitals identified as hotspots for superbugs, not animals or environment: Study

Drug-resistant superbugs: Ukraine's other wartime enemy

Drug-resistant superbugs projected to kill 39 million by 2050

Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era

Superbugs vs Covid-19: Comparing scale and severity of global health threats, preparing for next health catastrophe

Antibiotics wreak havoc on the gut. Can we kill the bad bugs and spare the good ones?

Are scientists finally beating antimicrobial resistance?

Superbugs pose graver threat than Covid-19. Here's all you need to know about antimicrobial resistance

Gender-neutral lavatories ‘have more germs than single-sex ones’

Going to war with the ‘superbugs’

A potent antibiotic has emerged in the battle against deadly, drug-resistant superbugs

Superbugs, black holes, biodiversity in Costa Rican farms : Short Wave : NPR

SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING | Will AI help us beat superbugs?

Discovery of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in L.A. wastewater sparks worry

A Game-Changer: India’s Under-Trial Drug Shows Promise Against Hospital Superbugs

Stakeholders must collaborate to reduce resistance to antibiotics

UK rivers are a ‘superbug-polluted’ health threat, study finds

Antimicrobial resistance is a silent killer, say doctors

Viruses to Fight Superbugs? Scientists Are Working on It

Study Finds 38% ICU Patients with Superbug Infections Die in 2 Weeks. Why Is This Worrying?

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria: New drug can fight off 300 different types of superbugs

Antibiotics from plastics! Study reveals use of microplastics in water bodies

Op-Ed: We’re losing the fight against superbugs, but there’s still hope