infection

New technique can fight many viruses
The new treatment uses a drug called DRACOs (Double-stranded RNA Activated Caspase Oligomerizers)and the researchers from the Lincoln Laboratory of MIT have published their research in the journal, ‘PLoS One.’

German health officials made the announcement after recent test by the German authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia on samples from the trash can of an infected family came positive.

Authorities have confirmed that the source of the deadliest E. coli outbreak came from bean sprouts produced in an organic farm in northern Germany.

The new MRSA strain, according to the scientists, is immune to antibiotics and is impossible to detect with the standard tests performed in hospitals due to its unusual genetic make-up.

Researchers from Cambridge University have stumbled on the new microorganism while studying bovine mastitis, a fatal bacterial infection observed in dairy cows.