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Drug Resistant Bacteria

NIH and Superbugs: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick | Posted 02.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Superbugs, Healthy Living Health News, Antibiotics Overuse Superbugs, Public Health, Antibiotics, Antibiotics Overprescribed, Health Care, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Antibiotics Overuse, Healthy Living News
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick

The emergence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria is a challenge that will be with us for years to come. The solution demands a strategic, thoughtful and collaborative team approach.

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Bad Bugs From an Unsustainable Meat-Producing Model

Steve Heilig | Posted 09.17.2012 | Home
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Meat, Climate Change, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Lester-Breslow, Meat Industry, Philip-R-Lee, Home News
Steve Heilig

The overuse of antibiotics is just one way industrial agriculture relies upon unsustainable practices. It's now past time we act in name of science and public health.

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Lynne Peeples

Superbugs Threatening More Children, 'Supermoms' Targeting Antibiotic Use On Farms

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.15.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Superbugs, X Factor, Fda, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News

Everly Macario recalls the "primal shriek" her son released one fateful April morning in 2004. By the end of the day, Simon Sparrow, who had not yet t...

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What Are Superbugs Doing In Antarctica?

Posted 02.07.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistance, Antarctica Bacteria, Video, E. Coli Antarctica, E-Coli, E. Coli Outbreak, E. Coli, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News

From Russell McLendon and Mother Nature Network: Escherichia coli bacteria, better-known as E. coli, are common in the lower intestines of humans. ...

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Treating a World Without Antibiotics?

Stanley M. Bergman | Posted 03.30.2012 | Science
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Science News
Stanley M. Bergman

Because of the overuse of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance is developing all of the time. With microbial evolution outpacing human invention, a nightmare scenario is possible. And this isn't just science fiction.

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Drug-Resistant Salmonella Sickens 19 Ground Beef Eaters

Posted 01.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Drug Resistant Salmonella Outbreak, Food Poisoning, Video, Drug Resistant Salmonella Ground Beef, Food Safety, Fda Drug Resistance, Salmonella Ground Beef, Ground Beef, Drug Resistant Salmonella, Ground Beef Salmonella, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Home News

Nineteen have fallen ill with drug-resistant salmonella after eating a bad batch of ground beef, reports Food Safety News. The AP writes: PORTLAND,...

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Why Some Bacteria Are Able To Fight Off Antibiotics

| Posted 11.21.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Antibiotic Resistance, Video, Antibiotics, Bacteria Antibiotic Resistance, Bacteria Antibiotics, Oxidative Stress Bacteria, Bacteria Antibiotic Resistant, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Healthy Living News

By Katherine Harmon (Click here for the original article) The superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has provoked fear in doc...

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Deadly Serious: Antibiotic Resistant Salmonella Free to Be in Your Food

Wendy Gordon | Posted 10.18.2011 | Home
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Usda, Organic Farming, Salmonella, Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Salmonella Outbreak, Turkey Recall Usda, Usda Turkey Recall, Salmonella Turkey, Food, Drug-Resistant Salmonella, Salmonella Ground Turkey, Turkey Recall, Home News
Wendy Gordon

In what country is it legal for deadly salmonella to be in your food? Um, well, there may be others, but I am sure of only one, the United States.

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act

David Kirby | Posted 06.15.2011 | Home
Read More: Animal Factory, Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Staph, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Bacteria in Meat, Cafos, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Food, Food Politics, Home News
David Kirby

Maybe now the average American consumer will finally take note, and demand that Congress do something. Candidate Obama ran in support of an antibiotic ban in 2008, but has done little to advance the cause since then.

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When The Drugs Don't Work

Reuters | Kate Kelland and Ben Hirschler | Posted 06.01.2011 | Home
Read More: Drug-Resistant Superbugs, Drug Resistant Infection, Superbug Crisis, Drug Resistant, Superbugs, Super Bugs, Superbug Problems, Drug-Resistant, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Drug Resistant Superbugs, Home News

By Kate Kelland and Ben Hirschler David Livermore is in a race against evolution. In his north London lab, he holds up an evil-smelling culture...

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Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Gene Hits Japan

AP | SHINO YUASA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Japanese Medicine, Antibiotics, Medicine, E Coli, Japanese Health, Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Japanese Superbug, Dokkyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Superbug Gene, Ndm-1, World News

TOKYO — Japan has confirmed the nation's first case of a new gene in bacteria that allows the microorganisms to become drug-resistant superbugs,...

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CBS Investigates Threat of Animal Ag's Antibiotic Abuse

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Farm Animals, Superbugs, Food Politics, Katie Couric, Factory Farms, Antibiotics, Pork, Drug Resistant Bacteria, CBS Evening News, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric took a revealing look at the dangerous U.S. agribusiness practice of feeding antibiotics to billions of farm animals virtually every day of their lives.

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Animal Antibiotics (VIDEO): A Threat To Human Health?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Mrsa, Animals Antibiotics, Shelley Hearne, Antibiotics, Farm Animals, Animals, Farm Workers, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Food, Green News

While the most commonly known use of antibiotics is to kill bacteria fight off sickness, for the past 60 years they've also been given to healthy farm...

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Antibiotic-Free Meat: Is the FDA Finally Catching Up to the American Consumer?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Antibiotics, Bpa, Fda Approval, Organic Food, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

The beauty of our system is that when government lags behind, we as American consumers still have the power to direct the marketplace by the products we buy -- or don't buy.

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