Effective Treatment for MRSA? FDA, WHO Search for New Drug

FDA mulls speeding drug development for deadly ‘superbug’ antibiotic-resistant infections The widespread misuse of antibiotics has triggered the evolution and spread of lethal multi-drug resistant bacteria — ‘superbugs’ — that are difficult to treat and have few remedies. Today, antibiotic-resistant infections comprise a looming public health crisis, warns the World Health Organization in a long [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Effective Treatment for MRSA? FDA, WHO Search for New Drug

Can You Catch Flesh Eating Virus in Public Places?

It’s really a frightening prospect that’s almost like something straight out of a sci-fi thriller. Bacterial strains colonize the skin and membranes of your nose and remain benign but stealthy colonizers there until they come into contact with, maybe a surgical wound in a person who’s just had a transplant and who’s taking immunosuppressant to [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Can You Catch Flesh Eating Virus in Public Places?

Flesh Eating Virus in Britain (the U.K.)

Deadly flesh-eating superbug spreads in the UK? Hogwash, NHS says Is there really such a thing as a new, deadly flesh-eating superbug that can be spread by coughing and sneezing? Should we worry? Can we prevent it? Last week, British commuters were alarmed when a tabloid warned that coughing and sneezing on crowded trains and [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Flesh Eating Virus in Britain (the U.K.)

Flesh-eating Bacterial Infection – Prevention, Treatment, & What is It Exactly?

There is something about being “eaten alive” by bacteria, crawling unseen on your skin, that is so primitive and so sci-fi at the same time, it unleashes the primal fear in us. Maybe this is why, on the rare occasion that the gruesome flesh-eating bacterial infection strikes, it creates a storm in cyberspace. Or why [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Flesh-eating Bacterial Infection – Prevention, Treatment, & What is It Exactly?

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Jake Finkbonne, & Flesh-Eating Miracles

The Vatican has officially deemed as a miracle an American boy’s stunning recovery from a severe battle with a flesh-eating bacterial infection that nearly killed him in 2006. And the miracle is attributed to the intercession of the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha who, if canonized, will become the Catholic Church’s first Native American saint. On December [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Jake Finkbonne, & Flesh-Eating Miracles

Bath Salts Can Cause Flesh-Eating Infection

Despite its innocuous name, the extreme dangers of the new street drug known as “bath salts” are just beginning to emerge, and doctors from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have found a new menace. People who take “bath salts” by injecting them into their muscles are not only putting themselves [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Bath Salts Can Cause Flesh-Eating Infection

Bananas With Flesh Eating Bacteria?

An email and text hoax warning consumers that they could contract a gruesome and fatal “skin-eating” disease from eating bananas has terrified Southern Africans in recent weeks. The hoax e-mail and text message warned people against eating bananas for the next three weeks, especially fruit from the South African KwaZulu-Natal region, and to see a [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Bananas With Flesh Eating Bacteria?

Vanessa Feltz Survives Flesh Eating Bug

British TV personality and ex-chat show queen Vanessa Feltz almost lost a leg last month to a flesh-eating bacterial infection. The 49-year-old was spotted in mid-November sporting a huge hole just below her right knee that she said was the result of a flesh eating bug. She was seen as she was leaving the British [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Vanessa Feltz Survives Flesh Eating Bug

MRSA Treatment: Manuka Honey?

Researchers from the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff have discovered that a special kind of honey called Manuka honey can control the deadly bacterial infection known as Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus or MRSA. The researchers revealed that they treated MRSA cells with Manuka honey and found out that the number of their cell protein [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, MRSA Treatment: Manuka Honey?

Anti-MRSA Drug to Fight Superbugs: Britain’s XF-73

British scientists have developed a new anti-bacterial drug, currently code-named XF-73, which could kill deadly superbugs in five minutes. The short period that the drug acts on the bugs is very crucial because it prevents the bacteria from developing resistance. Destiny Pharma, the Sussex pharmaceutical company which introduced XF-73, reveals that the drug can be [...]

Flesh Eating Virus, Anti-MRSA Drug to Fight Superbugs: Britain’s XF-73