A WOMAN who was admitted to hospital with a UTI died after contracting a dangerous new strain of superbug. A strain of the ...

Around 52,000 people a year catch superbugs in the UK, causing around 2,000 deaths and costing the NHS around £180 million ...

Researchers from Monash University discovered two versions of a previously-unknown bacteriophage, a virus that kills bacteria, in the Merri Creek, a waterway that flows through Melbourne's northern ...

An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this ...

Cases of the highly contagious norovirus rose 29 percent between September 23 and October 6, with suffering Brits moaning ...

The virus – given an Indigenous name that translates to “dangerous Merri lurker” in English – has the potential to save ...

A recently emerged strain of bacteria called Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE) is leading to a concern ...

Scientists have discovered the mechanism which allows the superbug methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to become highly resistant to antibiotics, paving the way for new approaches to ...

Your support makes all the difference. A common antibiotic used to treat liver disease could give rise to an “almost untreatable” superbug, scientists warned in a new study. The antibiotic ...

Irish researchers have discovered more about how the superbug MRSA becomes highly resistant to antibiotics, making it more ...

In doing so, they traced the global existence and spread of this critically antibiotic-resistant bacteria commonly found within hospitals, building the first “superbug map.” They noted that ...