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New Drug-Resistant Malaria Strains Are Spreading in Southeast Asia
These stronger strains are slowly becoming the dominant malaria-causing parasites in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
What You Need to Know About the Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug That Just Arrived in the US
Public health officials fear the dawning of a post-antibiotic era, and the discovery of a new strain of bacteria in the US is a warning to act before it's too late.
A Scientist Has a Solution to Antibiotic Resistance—Genetically Modified Maggots
Wound-munching bugs could be the future of medicine
VICE News Capsule - Friday, January 9
Mass graves found in Mexico's Guerrero State, Venezuela's economic woes continue, study finds fracking caused Ohio earthquakes, and new antibiotic offers hope in global war on superbugs.
The FDA Has Finally Taken Steps to End Antibiotic Use in Livestock
80 percent of all antibiotics are used on animals, and we wonder why superbugs are becoming more common?
Future Sex: The Rise of Drug Resistant Gonorrhea
This week the _New Yorker_ has published an "in-depth account of the rise of an antibiotic resistant strain on gonorrhea":http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_groopman. How terrified should we be?
We're Screwed: Some Strains of Gonorrhea are Now Totally Drug Resistant
If you're one of the 700,000 estimated who will catch the "'clap'":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonorrhea this year, your life just got even _more_ shitty. According to new research, a new superstrain of gonorrhea may be resistant to all drug...