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    December 27, 2016
    Marjorie Lewis is interviewed by Reuters near pictures of her deceased husband Harold in Inwood, West Virginia, U.S., December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
    Special Report: How hospitals, nursing homes keep 'superbug' outbreaks secret
    ROSWELL, New Mexico (Reuters) - The outbreak started in January 2014. That’s when a resident of the Casa Maria nursing home here was diagnosed...
    newsDecember 27, 2016 - 3:13pm
    September 12, 2016
    Rae Greulich, whose husband Dan died from an antibiotic resistant infection, speaks to a reporter in Agoura Hills, California, U.S. on June 27, 2016. REUTERS/David McNew
    Special Report: 'Superbug' scourge spreads, U.S. fails to track rising human toll
    RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Josiah Cooper-Pope, born 15 weeks premature, did fine in the neonatal intensive care unit for the first 10 days of...
    lifestyle/healthSeptember 12, 2016 - 1:05pm
    August 15, 2016
    Around 400 animals are kept at the Venomtech lab in Kent, England, including about 70 species of tarantula and 30 species of scorpion. Many of these kill their prey with venoms that contain hundreds of protein molecules, some of which block nerve activity. BrainerdDispatch.com Illustration
    Spiders and scorpions 'drafted' in fight against superbugs
    (Reuters) - A British lab is searching for new medicines in the poisonous secretions of some of the world's deadliest creatures, addressing the...
    lifestyle/healthAugust 15, 2016 - 2:37pm
    November 7, 2014
    Captured German prisoners at Longueau, on the Western Front, August 1, 1916. This picture is part of a previously unpublished set of World War One (WWI) images from a private collection. The pictures offer an unusual view of varied and contrasting aspects of the conflict, from high tech artillery to mobile pigeon lofts, and from officers partying in their headquarters to the grim reality of life and death in the trenches. 2014 marks the centenary of the start of the First World War. REUTERS/AMC
    Drug-resistant superbug found in 1915 soldier killed by dysentery
    LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Scientists who unlocked the genetic code of bacteria grown from a soldier who died of dysentery in World War I say...
    business/technologyNovember 7, 2014 - 2:23pm
    August 17, 2014
    Extreme medicine: The search for new antibiotics
    NORWICH, England, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Pampering leafcutter ants with fragrant rose petals and fresh oranges may seem an unlikely way to rescue modern medicine, but scientists at a lab in eastern England think it's well worth trying. As the world cries out for new antibiotics, researchers...
    business/technologyAugust 17, 2014 - 11:40pm
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