Mozart Killed By Superbug?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was killed by complications of a strep infection that was widely spread by soldiers in Vienna at the time, according to a group of Dutch researchers. There have been rumors about Mozart's death - some suggest that he was poisoned by his jealousy rival...

Marijuana Ingredients Show Promise In Battling Superbugs

Marijuana Ingredients Show Promise In Battling Superbugs Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs,"...

How garlic stops MRSA deaths

Garlic does more than make our food taste good, it can aid in the healing and even prevention of certain medical conditions.Garlic. For years, in movies, it has been keeping vampires at bay, but according to...

Superbugs kills 90,000/year in US

This is all over the news in the US today:"CHICAGO - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.Deaths tied to...

Reports: Drug-resistant staph may emerge as deadly 'superbug'

Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that lives on the skin and in the nose of humans, and is unknowingly carried by millions of people. It can cause infections of the skin, in the blood, in the bones, and in the lungs. It has become resistant to a wide range of...

Horrific Superbug Kills 345 + Chief's Payoff

You can go into hospital for a minor operation and leave in a coffin. All due to cleanliness or rather a lack of it."The health secretary, Alan Johnson, described the outbreak as "awful" and "a scandal", but...

UK: Threat From ‘New E-Coli Superbug’ "Spreading"

Update: Resistant E-coli strain spreading."An antibiotic-resistant strain of E.coli thought to be linked to imported meat is spreading rapidly, according to an investigation."" There have so far been two major...

Alarming Trend: Superbug Spreads To Civilians

"The February issue of Wired magazine discusses an alarming epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the US combat-support hospitals in Iraq that has spread into civilian hospitals in the US and Europe. Steve Silberman, a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, writes a...

Superbug woe as MRSA is reduced

"Superbug woe as MRSA is reduced INFECTION control experts at Northampton General Hospital believe they are on track to meet Government targets to reduce MRSA on wards, but fear a different superbug is harder to control. The hospital recorded only 10 cases of MRSA infections...

Outbreak of Superbug Kills Two in Britain

"A nurse and a patient have died from a deadly new strain of MRSA after a superbug outbreak at a hospital in Britain, said the Health Protection Agency (HPA) on Monday.     Four other workers at the same hospital also contracted Panton-Valentine...

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