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Doctors Are Still Putting Us at Risk of Superbugs with Too Many Antibiotics
Doctors are prescribing antiobiotics in situations where they aren’t needed or for unclear reasons, when there is a very clear downside to doing so.
Viruses Are the Antibiotics of the Future
Bacteriophages and the enzymes they produce are being used in Georgia to kill bacteria that is resistant to every known type of antibiotic.
Komodo Dragon Blood Might Save Us From Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs'
The Komodo dragon's blood has a special protein to protect the lizard from its own bacteria-ridden drool.
These Are the Most Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs in the World
As these bugs develop resistance to our last line of defense, it puts us in a serious pickle.
Baby Tasmanian Devils Have Given Us a Potential Treatment for Superbugs
Because devil babies are born so young, their mother’s milk is spiked with powerful antibiotics.
Antibiotic-resistant superbugs are the biggest global health threat, UN says
The world is taking unprecedented steps to address the rise in antibiotic resistant infections during a summit at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Vegans, You’re Contributing to Antibiotic Resistance, Too
For the first time, the United Nations general assembly is holding a high-level meeting on antibiotic resistance.
The VICE Morning Bulletin
This morning, Obama visits Hiroshima, the UN has warned that civilians are in 'danger of starvation' in Syria, Trump pledges to cancel the Paris climate agreement, and more.
Superbugs Will Kill More Than Cancer by 2050 Unless We Act Now, Says New Report
Antibiotic resistant superbugs could kill one person every three seconds and cost up to $100 trillion within 35 years, unless urgent action is taken now, a major new report has found.
A Scientist Has a Solution to Antibiotic Resistance—Genetically Modified Maggots
Wound-munching bugs could be the future of medicine
Setting Fire to Drinking Water (Excerpt from ‘Superbugs’)
VICE News reporter Neha Shastry speaks to a sheriff of a small village downstream from pharmaceutical factories about how the rise of the industry has effected the local waterways.