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Gonorrhea Close to Gaining Superbug Status

(March 30) -- Unless medical experts devise a new way to treat it, gonorrhea -- the world's second most common sexually transmitted infection, after chlamydia -- will soon become a drug-resistant superbug. "This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhea will...

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Gonorrhea Could Join Growing List of Untreatable Diseases

The arms race between humanity and disease-causing bacteria is drawing to a closeâand the bacteria are winning.

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Sunil Chacko: Time for Antibiotics-Free Animal Industry Practices

The misuse of antibiotics in medical care for humans and in the animal industry is at the center of the increasing problem of antibiotics resistance.

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David Kirby: Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act

Once again, our industrial food production system has come to bite us back -- this time in the form of drug-resistant staph bacteria detected in one-half of supermarket meat samples tested in one study , with one-half of the resistant samples found with bacteria that were resistant to multiple drugs.

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Debate Raging Over Confined Animal Feeding Operations

It's a particularly tense debate being played out in rural communities across the country, but most recently at a heated meeting in Knox County , Missouri, where residents voiced concerns over local confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) and whether or not the county's health ordinance is being properly enforced.