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Flu Vaccine Inoculates Against Antibiotic Overuse

Researchers in Canada have hurled a stone at two relatively large birds: annual outbreaks of influenza and increasing proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Their question: Would providing an...

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Among Antibiotics, Resistance Knows No Bounds

Since penicillin was isolated from a fungus in 1929, mankind’s stockpile of antibiotics has expanded to include a diversity of life-saving compounds. However, from streptomycin in the 1940s to...

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Defeating Bacteria From the Inside Out

Bacteriophages, a class of viruses that only attack bacteria, have been controversial ever since their discovery by a brash, young, self-taught researcher named Felix d’Herelle nearly a century ago. In...

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The Complicated Fears of an Infectious Future

The New York Times nearly made me choke on my Cheerios yesterday morning with an alarming front-page story about how “infectious disease docs are frantic.” Doctors, the story says, are frantic because...

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Living in a Bacterial World

The discovery of antibiotics was one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in human history, but it was quickly followed by the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Now, nearly 80 years after the...

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Antibacterial Everything Really Is a Bad Idea

Sometimes an impending train wreck is obvious, made even worse as it unfolds in slow motion, and particularly painful when it seems preventable. And so it is every time we wash our hands or even put on...

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