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A new sulfur-rich antimicrobial polymer shows strong effectiveness against fungal and bacterial pathogens and may offer an ...

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Antimicrobial resistance is a crisis hiding in plain sight. A new report estimates that 1.15 million people died due to superbugs in 2022, and that about 39 million people could die by 2050. The ...

Superbugs that are increasingly resistant to infections could kill up to 40 million people between now and 2050, according to new research published in the journal The Lancet. During that time period, ...

Hospital rooms, operating rooms and medical equipment are so inadequately cleaned that any patient going into a hospital is at risk of getting a deadly superbug. That’s true even if you’re going for ...

Your pet might be bringing more germs into your house than you think. People and their pets may be able to transmit drug-resistant “superbugs” to each other, new research suggests. The research — ...