Experts fear climate change may be fueling the rise of superbugs, adding to a global crisis of antimicrobial resistance.

Experts fear climate change may be fueling the rise of superbugs, adding to a global crisis of antimicrobial resistance.

The CDC issues a stark warning on the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Learn about symptoms and how to stay protected.

Inappropriate antibiotic use is helping create superbugs, which now kill 50,000 Americans a year.

Inappropriate antibiotic use is helping create superbugs, which now kill 50,000 Americans a year.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Superbugs cause an estimated 9.7 million infections and 50,800 deaths in the United States each year.Those figures c

Scientists are advancing a promising new way to fight antibiotic-resistant infections by using viruses that specifically target and kill harmful bacteria. An international team has released the first ...

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Scientists are advancing a promising new way to fight antibiotic-resistant infections by using viruses that specifically target and kill harmful bacteria. An international team has released the first ...

Scientists are advancing a promising new way to fight antibiotic-resistant infections by using viruses that specifically target and kill harmful bacteria. An international team has released the first ...

Scientists are advancing a promising new way to fight antibiotic-resistant infections by using viruses that specifically target and kill harmful bacteria. An international team has released the first ...

An international team of experts has taken an important step toward making this approach safer and more practical for medical use. Led by the German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI), the group has developed the first internationally coordinated clinical guidelines for personalized phage therapy, a treatment that uses carefully selected viruses to attack harmful bacteria. The effort involved 20 professional organizations, 18 international experts, including representatives from regulatory agencies, and two patient advocacy organizations. Together, they established more than 60 recommendations covering how phages should be selected, tested, manufactured, administered, and monitored. The guidelines also address laboratory infrastructure, quality control, treatment documentation, and priorities for future research. The consensus statement was published in the journal Nature Medicine. Until now, doctors and researchers have lacked a unified international framework for many of the essential procedures and quality standards involved in using phages as medical treatments. How Bacteria-Killing Viruses Could Fight Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotic resistance is making bacterial infections increasingly difficult to treat around the world. As some bacteria develop defenses against commonly used medications, doctors may find themselves with few effective options. One possible alternative involves bacteriophages, commonly called phages. These are viruses that naturally infect bacteria and can destroy them...

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Antimicrobial resistance makes illnesses harder to treat. Antibiotics and other medications are necessary to dispose of some infections.

Scientists are advancing a promising new way to fight antibiotic-resistant infections by using viruses that specifically target and kill harmful bacteria. An international team has released the first ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 19 "superbugs" that currently pose a threat to human health in the United States, plus another six that are being monitored as potential t...

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Antimicrobial resistance makes illnesses harder to treat. Antibiotics and other medications are necessary to dispose of some infections.

Antimicrobial resistance makes illnesses harder to treat. Antibiotics and other medications are necessary to dispose of some infections.

Nineteen germs, mostly drug-resistant, cause an estimated 9.7 million infections and 50,800 deaths in the country each year.

Scientists have engineered and validated a novel, synthetic antimicrobial peptide named RK-14 that shows extraordinary promise in the global fight against drug-resistant superbugs and stubborn hospita...