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Recent death from resistant bug won't be the last

  • Written by Frank Bowden, Professor at ANU Medical School; Senior Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases; General Physician, Australian National University
imageAccording to the World Health Organisation, antimicrobial resistance is now at crisis point. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Reports of the death of effective antibiotics are no longer greatly exaggerated. The US Centers for Disease Control has reported that a woman in her 70s has died of overwhelming sepsis caused by a bacterium that was resistant to...

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