In a groundbreaking report released this week, the Centers for Disease Control says the agricultural use of antibiotics for raising livestock is a major contributor to the threat posed to humans by ...

Supergerms cause 1 out of 7 infections caught in hospitals, health officials said Thursday. The bugs include the staph infection MRSA and five other bacteria resistant to many kinds of antibiotics, ...

Public health efforts had driven down these resistant infections in hospitals by nearly 30% between 2012 and 2017. But in 2020, the pandemic pushed hospitals, health departments and communities “near ...

Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus ...

C. diff is the deadliest antibiotic-resistant germ on the CDC's urgent list, causing 12,800 deaths a year in the United States. The other two germs on the urgent list since 2013 are ...

The drug-resistant superbug fungus Candida auris is spreading rapidly across the US, infecting at least 7,000 people in 27 ...

With the United States facing an increasing number of drug-resistant “superbugs,” federal health officials said a relatively simple solution could prevent more than half a million of the most deadly ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is when microbes become resistant to the treatments used against them. It is one of the most pressing global health threats of our time, undermining the efficacy of life ...

You may be worried about a government shutdown, but I'm not. I'm not worried about a shutdown because we're all about to die anyway. Superbugs are going to kill us. "Drug-resistant bacteria pose ...