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When A Simple Infection Will Kill: The Demise Of Antibiotics
Warnings of antibiotic resistance and the emergence of ‘superbugs’ have increased alarmingly in recent months. Three years ago warnings were issued about rising antibiotic resistance, professor Sally...
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Food Insecurity: Report Proves Soil Quality Drops As Antibiotics In Animal...
The practice of dosing livestock with antibiotics combined with putting the same drugs into animal feed is having a profound effect on the soil where the manure is used as fertilizer. Scientists have...
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Home-Made Probiotic Yoghurt For Gut Disorders
Gut flora isn’t the most riveting subject but having the right balance of bacteria can literally be a matter of life or death. Clostridium difficile has been in the news for a few years and is one of...
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When Cholera Comes To Town
The only thing standing between us and a complete health disaster is clean water. Disease laden drinking water kills hundreds of thousands of people each year around the world. Cholera alone kills...
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The Next Pandemic? Bubonic Plague Didn’t Vanish It’s Still Here
Bubonic plague smear showing yersinia pestis bacteria Almost everyone seems under the impression that bubonic plague, and its more dangerous big brothers pneumonic plague and septicemic plague...
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Tularaemia: An Ideal Weapon For Biowarfare
Thumb ulcer caused by tularemia (photo:CDC) According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Francisella tularensis, the organism that causes tularemia, is one of the most infectious...
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Bio-warfare: Botulinum Toxin Type H- the Deadliest Toxin On Earth
Type-H botulism toxin: Simply sniffing it at a dose of 13-billionths of a gram can be lethal A single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled, can kill more than one million people....
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The 10 Million People A Year Will Die Due To Antibiotic Resistance Are Just...
United Nations estimates of 10 million people a year dying of infection due to antibiotic resistance is just the tip of the iceberg. A resurgence of diseases such as plague would add millions to that...
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Could Typhus Make A Comeback?
Pediculus corporis after feeding First of all typhus should not be confused with typhoid, they are two entirely different things. Also, there are quite a few types of typhus in circulation, this...
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