The MRSA strain, called t016-ST22-MRSA-IV, has a unique pattern of antibiotic resistance; it could resist at least four drugs, including […]
Category: infection
Toddler’s tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
Boy’s unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner. Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba (a single-celled living organism) […]
Flesh-eating bacteria devour man’s arm and leg in just three days
Deadly threat These bacteria have a large arsenal of molecular munitions, including various toxins, that all help the bacteria hijack […]
Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum
She had surgery to remove the mucus munchers, which recovered 10 larvae at various stages and a pupa. A genetic […]
Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
A debilitating infection from the parasitic Guinea worm is inching closer to global eradication, with an all-time low of only […]
Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours
Infections had turned his lungs to soup and had to be cleared before transplant. Humans can’t live without lungs. And […]
This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying
Savage microbe Whatever was laying waste to his eye seemed to have come from inside his own body, carried in […]
This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying
Savage microbe Whatever was laying waste to his eye seemed to have come from inside his own body, carried in […]