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 ... Tags:medical, disease, antibiotic, food. health