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Antibiotic Resistance

What Do We Do When the Antibiotics Stop Working?

Kapil Khatter | Posted 05.23.2013 | Canada
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Growth Promotion, Guidance, Staph Infection, Farm Animals, Smithfield Foods, World Health Organization, Hormel Foods, Animal Antibiotics, Livestock, Tyson Foods, Antibiotics, Regulation, Health Care, Codex, Canada News
Kapil Khatter

Gonorrhea, tuberculosis, staphylococcus -- you didn't want to get them before, and you definitely don't want them now. These are some of the not so pretty faces of today's antibiotic resistance, of today's untreatable diseases. And the worst is yet to come.

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The Evil Way Your Eyes Fend Off Germs

Jason Tetro | Posted 12.01.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antimicrobial Peptides, Antimicrobial, Antibiotics, Looks That Kill, Evil Eye, Keratin, Immune System, Germs, Eyes, Infections, Canada Living News
Jason Tetro

2012-05-28-GermGuyBanner.jpgThe eye is a complex organ and has developed a unique means to fight off germs. The eye has its own separate immune function to tackle a potential infection, which is called immune privilege. Research has since learned exactly how these peptides went about killing their enemies although the results are better placed in a Clive Barker novel -- AMPs manifest the well-known concept of death by a million paper cuts...

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Ontario Calls In Federal Expert On C. Difficile

CP | Posted 09.06.2011 | Canada
Read More: Public Health, Antibiotic Resistance, C. Difficile, Public Health Agency of Canada, C-Difficile-Outbreak-Niagara, C. Difficile Outbreak, Canada News

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - The federal government has sent a "disease detective" to help Ontario deal with a dangerous outbreak of C. difficile th...

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Death Toll In Niagara C. Difficile Outbreak Rises To 16

CBC | Posted 09.04.2011 | Canada
Read More: Hospitals, Antibiotic Resistance, Niagara Health System, C. Difficile, Infection, Canada News

CBC -- Another patient linked to a C. difficile outbreak in Ontario's Niagara Region has died, bringing the total number of deaths in recent weeks to ...

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