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A wide variety of E. coli bacteria in China have developed resistance to a key antibiotic of last resort, a new study has revealed, a worrying development in the rise of so-called superbugs.
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A 70-year-old Nevada woman has died after contracting a superbug that could not be treated with any known antibiotic. As microbiologist Dr. Lance Price tells Day 6 host Brent Bambury, cases like this will soon be all too common.
When the clock strikes noon Friday, presidential inauguration day, there will be another transition of power some 600 miles southwest of the White House. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will hand over his Atlanta-based agency to an acting director, a career civil servant named Anne Schuchat who has been serving as Frieden’s principal deputy director. Succession for this temporary role is spelled out by a federal law that applies to top government vacancies.
If it sometimes seems like the idea of antibiotic resistance, though unsettling, is more theoretical than real, please read on.