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Nurses' scrubs and hospital bed rails often contaminated with antibiotic-resistant superbugs

11/3/2016 - A recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study found that antibiotic-resistant superbugs are easily transmitted within hospital environments, often via nurses' clothing and patients' bed rails. The study looked at how superbugs are spread in medical facilities, by tracking the...

Tasmanian Devil Milk is capable of killing the most deadly superbugs

10/27/2016 - Milk from Tasmanian devils and other marsupials may be a natural cure for antibiotic-resistant infections, suggests a study conducted by researchers from the University of Sydney and published in the journal Scientific Reports. The researchers found that the milk contains no fewer than six compounds...

Bug Wars! Superbugs creating health and environment devastation across America

10/16/2016 - Do you spray Roundup on the weeds in your yard? Do you get prescribed antibiotics by your medical doctor the second you have symptoms of sickness, like a sore throat, a stuffy nose, or maybe some yellow or green mucus? Do you eat meat that's not labeled organic? In each of these ways, you could be...

Antibiotics continue to be abused in U.S. hospitals despite worsening superbug threat

9/30/2016 - The excessive use of antibiotics in humans and farm animals can drive drug-resistant bacteria to thrive. These so-called superbugs are resistant to most traditional last resort antibiotics. Despite this danger, U.S. hospitals continue to over-prescribe these drugs. In a new report researchers from...

Scientists stunned as common bacteria quickly transform into drug-resistant superbugs

9/15/2016 - For years we have been warning of an impending medical catastrophe due to the over-prescribing and overuse of antibiotics. In fact, as we reported last year, hospitals are some of the most prolific breeding grounds for drug-resistant superbugs, killing more patients a year than measles. Now, scientists...

Deadly superbug shuts down ICU at major London hospital amid fears of infectious disease outbreak

7/13/2016 - Antibiotic overuse continues to take its toll on public health, this time in Great Britain, where a deadly new superbug is spreading throughout the country's intensive care units (ICUs). Reports indicate that the Candida auris fungus, which was first identified in Japan in 2009, has already infected...

The end of chemical medicine: Superbug discovered in America that resists ALL known antibiotics... blind faith in failed pharma will soon cost you your life

5/30/2016 - It's always interesting to study how civilizations collapse and eras of seemingly great human ingenuity come crashing to an end. Since the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Flemming in 1928, the chemical medicine industry has promised humanity that all our ills will be cured by prescription medications....

Deadly superbugs are evolving across U.S. hospitals... Chemical medicine has NO answers (but natural medicine does!)

5/15/2016 - Superbugs are slowly taking over our world. Unless we take action, common infections could turn into unstoppable killers. Some experts claim that drug-resistant bacteria may end up being deadlier than cancer when all antibiotics start to fail. Each year, 23,000 Americans die from infections caused...

One in four seniors leave the hospital carrying a superbug on their hands

3/29/2016 - It is standard protocol for doctors and nurses to wash their hands to help curb the spread of infection in hospitals. According to a recent study, however, seniors often leave hospitals with more germs than they had walking in. In particular, the research, published in a JAMA Internal Medicine research...

Miracle molecule found in human breast milk shown to kill drug-resistant superbugs

3/6/2016 - Human breast milk is a wonderful thing – it gives new born babies the perfect mix of vitamins, proteins, fats and antibodies to help combat bacterial infections and viruses.(1) For thousands of years, breastfed children have benefited from this additional protection against disease...

Detergent wipes are spreading superbugs through hospitals

6/16/2015 - It's a trend that has swept through hospitals and medical clinics: the use of anti-bacterial wet wipes and alcohol-based cleaning gels that are meant to prevent the spread of disease. However, these items are actually creating ideal conditions for the spread of disease to the extent that "superbugs"...

Drug-resistant intestinal superbug imported to America from other countries

5/5/2015 - A new drug-resistant "superbug" is circulating the country, and health officials say it was brought in from overseas. The Associated Press says Shigella has already triggered more than 200 illnesses since last May, and experts worry that the bacteria might be here to stay. People who recently traveled...

MRSA killed by 1,000-year-old herbal antibiotic: hospital superbug MRSA subdued by British folk remedy

4/2/2015 10:05:43 AM - An herbal remedy used to treat styes in the 9th Century has been used successfully to kill MRSA. MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 9, is an antibiotic resistant bacteria that kills tens of thousands of people every year. Researchers at the University of Nottingham and Texas Tech...

Hospital superbug kills more people than measles; yet there's little outcry against doctors abusing antibiotics

3/22/2015 - The national news media have been hyping a Disneyland measles outbreak all winter long in an attempt to gain public support for mandatory vaccinations. Still, after looking at the ingredients in vaccinations, informed parents agree: MMR vaccines are one of the worst pharmaceutical products you would...

Rate of deadly, drug-resistant superbug infections at U.S. hospitals surges

3/5/2015 12:13:13 PM - Pharmacies give away antibiotics out their drive-thru window like Tootsie Rolls being tossed out in a parade. Doctors prescribe this candy medicine like it's some kind of all-around wonder drug. When we look at the actual science of antibiotics, they turn out to be less of a healing mechanism and more...

Dallas Ebola patient was originally sent home from hospital with useless antibiotics, feeding superbug epidemic

10/4/2014 - When "patient zero" first showed up at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas with what have now been determined to be some of the early symptoms of Ebola, he was reportedly turned away by hospital staff, who handed him a regimen of antibiotics and told him to basically just go home and sleep it off. Besides...

Drug-resistant superbug infections explode across U.S. hospitals: 500% increase foreshadows 'new plague' caused by modern medicine

7/17/2014 - Drug-resistant superbug infections have reached near-epidemic levels across U.S. hospitals, with an alarming 500% increase now documented in a study just published in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America)....

Deadly MERS virus spreading out of control in Saudi Arabia, leaps to Egypt as global pandemic begins

4/26/2014 - It has long been recognized by intelligent observers that a global superbug pandemic is inevitable. Humanity has created the perfect conditions for it: global nutritional deficiencies, weakened immune systems, high population density, high-speed international travel and systemic abuse of antibiotics...

Has a plague already arrived? 205 Americans die each day after acquiring superbug hospital infections

3/28/2014 - If a jumbo jet crashed into the ocean every single day, it would roughly equal the number of Americans who die each day following superbug infections acquired at U.S. hospitals. Far from being some hyped-up scare story, that's actually the conclusion of none other than the CDC, which has now publicly...

GMOs will unleash global killer 'ecocide' across the planet, warns prominent scientist

3/11/2014 - A top scientist and "risk engineering" expert is now publicly warning that GMOs pose a dire, genuine threat to the continuation of life on Earth. Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, says that GMOs have the potential to cause "an irreversible termination of life at some scale,...

Filthy endoscopes linked to superbug outbreaks at hospitals

1/17/2014 - A common procedure used by doctors to evaluate the health of their patients' internal organs has been identified as the cause of multiple "superbug" outbreaks at several U.S. hospitals. A new report published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report has found that filthy endoscopes, which are inserted...

NIH turns to older, dangerous antibiotics to fight deadly superbug outbreak - We're running out of options

10/22/2013 - Locked in a battle with an extremely drug-resistant superbug last year, doctors at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center played one last card. They turned to colistin, as it's named, an antibiotic that is not a new creation. In fact, it was actually discovered growing in a beaker of fermenting...

The coming plague will not be stopped by drugs: CDC now admits era of antibiotics at an end as bacteria out-wit drug companies

9/17/2013 - In a breakthrough moment of truth for the CDC, the agency now openly admits that prescription antibiotics have led to a catastrophic rise in superbugs, causing the death of at least 23,000 Americans each year (an estimate even the CDC calls "conservative"). This is the conclusion of the CDC's new...

Airborne transmission: Why the superbug epidemic may be more serious that we previously thought

8/27/2013 - Those exceptionally virulent, drug-resistant bacterial strains known as "superbugs" that increasingly threaten hospital patients around the world just became a whole lot more menacing. A new study published in the journal Building and Environment reveals that the deadly critters are capable of spreading...

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections continue to rise: Just how inept is the conventional medical industry?

8/25/2013 - A storm of epic proportions is brewing. No, not your typical rain storm, but a bacterial storm in which antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" threaten to take over hospitals, critical care facilities, and various other elements of the healthcare system where sick patients traditionally go to get better....

Now from the makers of the deadly cervical cancer vaccine: An MRSA superbug jab in the works

6/27/2013 - The woman responsible for developing the infamous Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer, which has seriously maimed or killed tens of thousands of young girls since first being introduced, is working on a new vaccine for antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according...

Desperate to stop superbug infections, hospitals are now turning to robotic UV sterilizers

5/10/2013 - They kill at least 100,000 people every single year, and the collective medical costs associated with treating people who contract them tops $30 billion a year, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics. But hospital "superbugs" have a new contender in the fight for...

How medicine is killing us all: Antibiotics, superbugs and the next global pandemic

3/11/2013 - While globalists like Bill Gates are feverishly working on ways to reduce human population through vaccines, GMOs and abortions, an even more effective population killer is now emerging: drug-resistant strains of "gram-negative" bacteria: Superbugs. The global abuse of antibiotics and the rise of...

Scientists discover new way Big Pharma drugs create dangerous superbugs

11/20/2012 - There's little argument -- even from mainstream medicine -- that too many doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics for illnesses, such as the common cold, for which these prescription drugs do nothing. The result is a potentially nightmarish proliferation of antibiotic resistant superbugs. Bottom line:...

The last antibiotic: Drug companies run out of weapons against the very same superbugs they helped create

8/30/2012 - The age of antibiotics is over. It's history. There are no more patented chemical antibiotics in the pipeline. The drug companies have all but abandoned antibiotics research, leaving humanity to suffer the fate of a wave of drug-resistant bacteria -- superbugs -- that the drug companies actually helped...

Antibiotics abuse has turned ordinary throat infections into deadly killers

5/8/2012 10:56:09 AM - It is no longer a secret that drug-resistant bacteria are rapidly emerging and spreading all around the world as a result of the continued overuse and abuse of antibiotic drugs in both conventional medicine and industrial agriculture. But now it appears that the genes responsible for spawning these...

Scientists created bird flu superbug that could set off next global pandemic

1/31/2012 - During roughly the same time period that health experts worldwide have been warning that the infamous H5N1 avian flu virus could soon morph into a highly-transmissible, exceedingly-deadly "super strain" capable of killing millions, scientists from around the world have been exposed deliberately developing...

Are UN soldiers responsible for bring deadly cholera superbug to the Americas? Scientists say yes

1/15/2012 - The devastating earthquake that slammed Haiti back in January 2010 obviously left the poverty-stricken country in even worse economic and infrastructural shape than it was prior to the disaster. But the arrival of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers shortly thereafter made things even worse, at least according...

Fail: New superbug drugs cause 500 percent increase in infections

11/3/2011 - Governments around the world have been trying to work with the pharmaceutical industry to come up with (conventional) new ways to tackle the growing "superbug" problem. But an experimental new drug treatment regime touted as a potential solution for superbugs has been exposed as a complete failure,...

Superbug horror -- scientists discover gonorrhea superbug that defies all known antibiotics

7/12/2011 - The danger of superbugs -- infectious germs that are resistant to a host of Big Pharma's drug arsenal -- a growing and deadly problem in the 21st century. For example, as NaturalNews covered earlier this year, the U.S. meat supply is contaminated with disease-causing bacteria, including the superbug...

Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli superbug was bioengineered to produce human fatalities

6/6/2011 - Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resistant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is talking about how e.coli could have magically become resistant to eight different classes of antibiotic drugs and then suddenly...

E.coli superbug outbreak in Germany due to abuse of antibiotics in meat production

6/2/2011 - The e.coli outbreak in Germany is raising alarm worldwide as scientists are now describing this particular strain of e.coli as "extremely aggressive and toxic." Even worse, the strain is resistant to antibiotics, making it one of the world's first widespread superbug food infections that's racking up...

Scientists issue urgent world-wide warning on bacteria with superbug gene

4/8/2011 - Nuclear meltdowns. Oil spills. More strife in Africa and the Middle East. GMO tainted crops. So what else could happen? Unfortunately, another problem has surfaced that has scientists calling for the "urgent need for global action". This time, it's worrisome news about a gene that turns bacteria into...

Superbug named New Delhi to make westerners afraid of offshore medical tourism

2/20/2011 - The industry of western medicine is steeped in corruption, dishonesty and dirty tricks. One of those dirty tricks became apparent recently when it was revealed that a superbug discovered by western researchers was given the name "New Delhi" in order to make westerners fearful of medical tourism in India. Medical...

Healthy People Taking Antibiotics May Spread Superbug Infection

9/3/2009 - Clostridium difficile, usually known as simply C. difficile, is a bacterium that spreads by bacterial spores. And a new study raises the disturbing possibility that antibiotics taken by people who aren't even ill from these bacteria can spur the germ into becoming a kind of bacterial spore spewing mega...

Hospital-Acquired Superbug Infections Soar in Newborn Babies

7/9/2009 - It's scary enough to have a newborn baby in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because he or she is premature or has health problems. But now there's reason to worry that many NICUs, places that are supposed to be dedicated to healing and protecting the youngest and most fragile of babies, are actually...

Hospitals Are Breeding Grounds for Superbugs

3/23/2009 - Do you know what the two most dangerous objects in a hospital are? A doctor's necktie and a doctor's cell phone! It's true: Neckties and cell phones harbor superbugs such as MRSA. This has been proven time and time again by numerous studies you can find written up in the popular press (http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/06/are-hospital-mobile-phones-dialing-up-superbugs.html). On...

Newly identified MRSA superbug kills healthy young adults in 24 hours

1/27/2007 - A new, dangerous superbug that kills within 24 hours has begun to spread across the industrialized world. The bacteria is called PVL-producing MRSA, and it is a highly-virulent strain of Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as the staph infection. This strain of staph infection is resistant to...

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