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Health burden of infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU/EEA
07.12.2022In November 2022 the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released its technical report ‘Assessing the health burden…
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WHO releases first-ever list of health-threatening fungi
15.11.2022(Press release by the WHO, 25 October 2022) WHO on 25 October 2022 published a report highlighting the first-ever list…
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AMR kills more people than malaria and HIV
08.09.2022A study published on 19 January 2022 in The Lancet estimates that 4.95 million deaths could be associated with bacterial…
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One health: Commission welcomes Member States’ support to designate antimicrobials reserved for humans
11.07.2022On 4th July 2022, Member States have given their support to the establishment of a list designating antimicrobials to be…
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Blown up by terrorist, saved by virus
26.01.2022BACTERIOPHAGES A woman was seriously injured in the 2016 terror attacks [in Brussels]. For two years, an infection in her…
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Fighting harmful bacteria with nanoparticles
10.01.2022Multi-resistant pathogens are a serious and increasing problem in today’s medicine. Where antibiotics are ineffective, these bacteria can cause life-threatening…
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Water quality tests in Ireland are not good enough – the real picture is a lot worse
23.06.2021Some 73% of the 148 beaches and lakes which are formally designated as swimming spots are deemed to be of…
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Ready to start traveling again this summer? Watch out for “super-bacteria”
23.06.2021Dutch and American researchers at Maastricht University in the Netherlands took faecal swabs of 190 Dutch travellers before and after…
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Omani doctor on a mission to combat AMR
23.06.2021“As an infectious disease specialist, by the time you get involved, there is nothing much you can do for the…
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