Fight Superbugs !

Superbugs ! Lets fight Superbugs! Blog started by a ninth grader from Princeton New Jersey USA for spreading the awareness of this global health emergency called "SUPERBUGS".This blog is all about superbugs - Bacteria who have outsmarted all our available antibiotics so far. I will keep writing about all things related to Superbugs like MRSA, bacteria, NDM-1, infection, antibiotic-resistant, multi-drug-resistant. This humanity crisis needs urgent attention before it is too late.

New Regulations on Antibiotics for Cattle

For many years, farmers have been giving cattle medicated feed and water. These antibiotics usually are for the cattle to grow faster and mu...

Younger Kids May Not Need Antibiotics for Ear Infections

According to Katherine Flema-Dutra, antibiotics given to kids over the age of six months may not need a full ten-day dose of antibiotics, an...

Appili gets $2.15M in funding to develop superbug fighter

As per the report of Peter Moreira from chronical herald, Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics Inc., whose ultimate goal is to produce a ...

Hospitals, nursing homes keep Superbugs outbreak under rug !!!

According to the latest investigative reporting by By Deborah J. Nelson, David Rohde, Benjamin Lesser and Ryan McNeill - Reuters, lackin...

another promising research breakthrough against MRSA- UConn Researchers Kill MRSA with Tailored Chemistry

Another great progress in terms of fighting against MRSA. UConn medicinal chemists have developed experimental antibiotics that kill...

Ahmad “Mo” Khalil, a College of Engineering assistant professor wins NIH New Innovator Award

The improper and excessive use of antibiotics has led to the rise of superbugs. Current technology does not give enough insight through qu...

CRE superbug scare at Tallaght Hospital , Dublin Ireland

Another scare at hospital. A number of cases of CRE, or carbapenem resistant enterobacteria, have been found at the Tallaght hosp...

What is a Superbug? - excellent concise video must watch by Stat News

Spero Therapeutics Initiates First Clinical Study for treatment of Multidrug Resistant Gram-Negative Infections

Another promising research in battle against "Superbugs" . As per the report from theprovince.com, Spero Therapeutics, headqu...

Indian state of Assam and other NE sates of India - Rampant use of antibiotic in Broiler chicken.

One of the major factors which is contributing to "Superbugs" health crisis is the rampant use of antibiotics for animal and p...

Finland - Tourism and Superbugs go hand in hand

credit: Getty + Ian Cuming There is gradual increase in antibiotic resistant supberbugs infections in Finland and in most of the ...

In India, 50,000 newborns estimated to die because of Superbugs- It is a wakeup call

India, being one of the top consumers of antibiotic, need to act fast on fighting against superbugs. In an article published on The Hin...

Antimicrobial Additive May Help Against Superbugs

According to the new research done at Washington University, an antimicrobial additive can possibly be more tolerant to antibiotics. Rea...

Superbugs not only confined to Hospitals - Six Colardo patients got infected outside

Scary scenario - Superbugs which was very recently were found only in medical facilities now is infecting people outside as well. A ...

Think twice before eating Chinese imported Shrimp - It might be Antibiotic Tainted Seafood

Not only pork, beef, chicken, turkey and other animals but even seafood is also getting traces of antibiotic. Not a god news but we nee...

Christmas and Superbug - Never thought to be linked through antibiotic fed Turkey

Over the period of time, the Christmas Turkey has gained weight due to the growth oriented antibiotic administration. This is one of the r...

Side effect of India's demonatization - bankers getting bitten by Superbugs

With Superbugs is appearing everywhere, stories like these will become more common in near future. We need to do something very so...

smartphone app for antimicrobial resistance testing !!

A simple, inexpensive attachment to smartphone for reading diagnostic test http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-researchers-combat...

Superbugs in leukemia patients - new research underway at New Weill Cornell Medicine-Cornell University

New Weill Cornell Medicine-Cornell University Collaboration Seeks Novel Technologies for Diagnosing and Treating “Superbugs” h...

The 5 Riskiest Superbugs - By Katie Moisse

Superbugs are everywhere and this article By Katie Moisse of ABC news has categorized the Superbugs in 5 deadliest categories. A good...

How antibiotics work - few good videos for superbugs basics.

This clip by e-Bug (free educational resource) describes how antibiotics work to kill bacteria, the difference between bacteriostatic and b...

Australia faces an 'unbelievable' national shortage of antibiotic

It is a frightening news item coming out of Australia. Vancomycin, an antibiotic used to treat diarrhea, will not be available until Fe...

Longitude Prize - £10 million prize to s solve the problem of global antibiotic resistance

Longitude Prize is a challenge with a £10 million prize fund to reward a diagnostic test that helps solve the problem of global antib...

Become an antibiotic guardian !! We all are in this crisis together.

Antibiotic resistance bacteria or popularly known as "Superbug" is one of the deadliest health threats of 21st century. If we don...

Antibiotic overuse - Oregon makes good progress ( 29% decline in oral antibiotic since 2008)

Unnecessary antibiotic use causes antibiotic resistant bacteria also known as "Superbugs". There is an encourasing sign of the...

Superbugs for dummies: Explaining the battle between bacteria and antibiotics

Superbugs for dummies: Explaining the battle between bacteria and antibiotics The discovery of an alarming new superbug in the US ...

Crowdsourcing antibiotic discovery - what an idea !! All kudos to Small World Initiative (SWI)

The Small World Initiative (SWI) developed at the Center for Scientific Teaching at Yale uses an undergraduate research course ...

What a nobel goal !! At least one new antibiotic therapy to market by the early 2020 - Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK)

Antibiotic Research UK (acronym ANTRUK) is a UK based charity dedicated to finding new antibiotics against resistant bacteria. It ai...

Fast Food Chains Being Ranked By Antibiotics

A group of public health and environmental organizations conducted a study on food chains that use chicken, beef or pork in their f...

Where does your favorite fast food restaurant rank in terms of their antibiotics policies ?

Photo credit: http://www.foe.org/projects/food-and-technology/good-food-healthy-pla...

PAMTA - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act - Please support

Louise McIntosh Slaughter is the only microbiologist women in Congress. In addition to being the only microbiologist in Congress, she ...

"If you use penicillin, use enough" - Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945 for Penicillin by ALEXANDER FLEMING

With Superbugs crisis so evident now, we all know that underdose of an antibiotic is fueling into this mammoth crisis. But only few p...

A Devil to Rescue !

Mother's milk from the marsupials, also known as Tasmanian devils, could help in fighting against "superbugs" which res...

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