Staph Strain Infects More Healthy People
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you're a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers', a new research report shows.
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Researchers on a safari for microbes  have found that human skin is populated by a veritable  menagerie of bacteria -- 182 species -- some apparently living  there permanently and others just dropping by for a visit.
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Potentially deadly staph bacteria may be easily defeated by the body's own immune system once stripped of their golden hue by a drug developed to lower cholesterol, according to new research.
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A new study suggests that a solution to drug-resistant bacteria like staph could be forcing the bugs to kill themselves.
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Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide
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Many everyday objects touched by dirty hands are harbouring and spreading the common cold virus, say scientists.
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By Eric Swedlund, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 14--Bacteria are far more abundant at people's desks than office restrooms, and it's the work areas of the fairer sex that harbor the most germs.
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People with bowel ulcers could soon be topping up their "friendly" bacteria to beat their illness.
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Hospitals can stem the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection by screening new patients and keeping them quarantined, say doctors who tried this novel approach.
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Health officials said the student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria that is primarily spread in hospitals but that in recent years has surfaced increasingly in nonhospital settings.
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Drug-resistant bacteria are infecting more people in community settings such as prisons and public housing, and not just in hospitals where such "superbugs" can run rampant, researchers said on Monday.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 9, 2004 - Could that ancient practice of bleeding patients really have done some good? A scientist says new research on how germs thrive in the body suggests it just may have for some people.
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Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide, health officials said Friday.
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The billions of microbes that live on human skin also appear to change composition as quickly as shifting fashion trends, a new report reveals.
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Infections acquired in hospitals, which take a heavy toll on patients, arise mainly from poor hygiene in hospital procedures, not from how sick patients were when they were admitted, according to three new studies.