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antimicrobial resistance

Doctors operate under a dim light in a clinic.

Invisible ‘superbug’ could be more deadly than bombs in Middle East war zones

Health & Medicine

The “superbug” bacteria often strike at much higher rates in the Middle East, according to Doctors Without Borders. The bacteria attack invisibly and without warning in the mangled limbs, bullet holes and other wounds of civilians and fighters in war zones.

People line up outside a hospital.

There’s a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren’t profitable

Health & Medicine
A computer model of a bacteriophage, which looks like a robot bug.

Are viruses the best weapon for fighting superbugs?

Health & Medicine
chickens

Journalist Maryn McKenna on the rise of ‘Big Chicken’ — and our current antibiotic crisis

Science
Case of drug-resistant microbes are on the rise around the world, especially bacteria resistant to antibiotics. This map from the World Health Organization shows the proportion of cases of tuberculosis that are resistant to multiple drugs, based on the la

A World Health Organization report warns we’re moving toward a world where antibiotics don’t work

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