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IN ARCHIVES FROM ANTIBIOTICS’ EARLIEST DAYS, SCIENTISTS FIND BACTERIA ALREADY EVOLVED RESISTANCE Scientists suspect the farm use of penicillin was to blame.

By |2017-12-03T16:55:23+00:00December 3rd, 2017|

It took nearly three decades after Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin for other scientists to develop a version of the drug that worked against E. coli and Salmonella, but it took less than two years after that for the first outbreak of antibiotic-resistant food poisoning to show up. Beecham Research Laboratories in Surrey, England, began mass-producing ampicillin in 1961. The first ampicillin-resistant Salmonella outbreak [...]

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Eat This, Not That to Fight Colds and Flu Foods that ‘train and maintain’ your immune system

By |2017-12-01T21:36:17+00:00December 1st, 2017|

The saying “You are what you eat” definitely applies to your body’s first line of defense — your immune system. Eating the right things will strengthen your immunity and you’ll more easily fend off microscopic invaders. Eat the wrong things, though, and you can weaken your immune system, leaving your body more vulnerable to attack. So, what should [...]

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The Unnecessary Persistence of Tuberculosis

By |2017-12-01T01:04:34+00:00December 1st, 2017|

The World Health Organization has just released its annual Global Tuberculosis Report. The report shows that even as tuberculosis (TB) rates continue to fall worldwide, the epidemic is larger than previously estimated, with 10.4 million new TB cases globally in 2015; over 95 percent of TB cases happen in low- and middle- income countries. 14 years ago, the Global [...]

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Thinking beyond the Common Candida Species: Need for Species-Level Identification of Candida Due to the Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris

By |2017-12-01T01:01:25+00:00December 1st, 2017|

ABSTRACT Candida species are one of the leading causes of nosocomial infections.  Because much of the treatment for Candida infections is empirical, some institutions do not identify Candida to species level. With the worldwide emergence of the multidrug-resistant species Candida auris, identification of Candida to species level has new clinical relevance. Species should be identified for invasive candidiasis isolates, and [...]

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Deep ocean bacteria discovered to play large role in carbon capture

By |2017-12-01T00:54:40+00:00December 1st, 2017|

Scientists collect water samples from the dark ocean -- the deep, unlit waters that comprise 90 percent of the ocean. In a new Science paper, Bigelow Laboratory researchers shared their discovery that nitrite-oxidizing bacteria play a major role in the capture of carbon dioxide in this realm. Credit: University of Vienna Marine bacteria that live [...]

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Siouxsie Wiles: Warning against growing number of anti-science sceptics

By |2017-12-01T00:46:25+00:00December 1st, 2017|

The Environmental Protection Authority says regulators are coming up against a growing number of internet sceptics. Among them, a growing number of fluoridation, 1080, vaccination and climate change doubters. Auckland University microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Mike Hosking they play at people's fears and emotions. "They use very emotive language, they're very convincing, and they're very [...]

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Cholera outbreak hits Karonga; one person dead, four hospitalized

By |2017-12-01T00:42:36+00:00December 1st, 2017|

Karonga health officials on Tuesday confirmed the death of one person over cholera outbreak in the district. According to the district environmental health officer Lewis Tukula, four people are also battling for their lives at the hospital due the disease. Tukula said two cases were identified at Iponga health center on Sunday while three at [...]

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The Global Threat of Animal Influenza Viruses of Zoonotic Concern: Then and Now

By |2017-12-01T00:37:16+00:00December 1st, 2017|

Abstract Animal influenza viruses can reassort or mutate to infect and spread sustainably among people and cause a devastating worldwide pandemic. Since the first evidence of human infection with an animal influenza virus, in 1958, 16 different novel, zoonotic influenza A virus subtype groups in 29 countries, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have caused human infections, [...]

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UTMB researchers develop Marburg virus treatment effective five days after infection social media

By |2017-12-01T00:31:38+00:00December 1st, 2017|

Watch here... In the new study that we published in The Journal of Clinical Intervention, UTMB researchers identified a single treatment that provides broad-spectrum protection against Marburg and Ravn viruses, both of which cause deadly disease. Marburg and Ravn viruses cause a disease that's very similar to the Ebola virus disease. So, it's a multi-systemic, [...]

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