February 03, 2012
A sampling of what we’re reading this week:
A WHO Bulletin includes some troubling news about record high rates of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Sarah Bosely at The Guardian breaks it down.
In a Nature News Feature, Superbug s Maryn McKenna explores the science behind a potential vaccine for MRSA.
The World Economic Forum included a panel on antibiotic resistance in this year’s program. Stanley M. Bergman reports from Davos.
A Forbes contributor asks, is the New York Giants bathroom more sanitary than your hospital room?
AAAS reports on a study suggesting that even meat raised without antibiotics contains antibiotic resistant bacteria.
NPR reports that sprouts are beginning to disappear from menus due to concerns about food safety. This after last year s deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe, traced back to contaminated sprouts.
Ramanan Laxminarayan, Director of CDDEP and Vice-President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India, talks with As It Happens about what it really means to think globally about antibiotic resistance (beginning at 18:00 in Part Three).
In PLoS Medicine, malaria researchers explain how targeting disease hotspots could make for more efficient interventions in both low and high malaria transmission areas.
Global malaria mortality could be double the current estimates, according to a new study in the Lancet.
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