News tagged with 'Antibiotic Resistance'

For more than 20 years, the FDA has been urging the drug and agriculture industries to stop using antibiotics in animal feed and water. With antibiotic resistance at epidemic proportions, the agency is giving the public 60 days to comment before it issues new industry guidance.

A research team looked at 90 dispensed beverages and found 70 percent had bacterial contamination that would not be allowed in municipal drinking water.

Antibiotic resistant diseases are an urgent problem that has one immediate solution, backing off on feeding 70 percent of the U.S. antibiotics to farm animals, about 28 million pounds a year.

A new vaccine given to cattle, may keep E. coli from shedding from the animal into our food supply. But getting to the root of the problem - the new documentary, "Food Inc." explores how agribusiness and factory farming methods have increased E. coli contamination and foodborne illnesses in the first place.  

The rate of dangerous staph infections has dropped dramatically in U.S. hospital intensive-care units, a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Prevention finds.

The dramatic story of a Brazilian model is bringing home the susceptibility even the young have to bacterial infections.  In this case, Mariana Bridi da Costa, 20, had an undiagnosed urinary tract infection which became a blood infection. Then her body began shutting down.

A new study reveals a super bacteria known as MRSA is spreading among children, causing a surge in head and neck infections. MRSA previously had been a major concern in hospitals, attacking patients who are already weakened by disease. But, recent outbreaks in the community, in otherwise healthy kids have raised new concerns.

In an effort to stop the increasing number of antibiotic resistant staph infections, the CDC has launched an educational initiative aimed at parents, schools, the military, anyplace where people are likely to contact others. Doctors see about 12 million skin infections a year. The good news is hand hygiene and covering the wounds are most effective in stopping the spread.