Health
‘Superbugs’ kill more than 35K people in the US each year. Doctors may be partially to blame, study suggests. – USA TODAY
They’re not only deadly, but also costly. Another CDC report found six pathogens are estimated to cost the U.S. more than $4.6 billion annually.
Superbugs or antibiotic-resistant bacteria are spreading making infections like pneumonia and gonorrhea difficult to treat.
USA TODAY
As the medical community finds treatments to combat the coronavirus, another deadly enemy continues to lurk in hospitals across the country: antibiotic-resistant infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls antibiotic resistance one of the biggest public health challenges of our time, and a new study suggests doctors may be partially to blame for…
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