Articles about Antibiotic-Resistant Disease Killing Humans and Swine (0-1 of 1)

  • Are We Eating Away Our Resistance To Disease
    By: Matt Kenny | - According to a study published October 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there were close to 100,000 cases of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the United States in 2005, which lead to more than 18,600 deaths. To put that number into perspective, HIV/AIDS killed 17,000 people that year.

    This was the study that propelled MRSA into the news last year, combined with a number of school outbreaks that took place a ...

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