antibiotic-resistance
2 stories tagged "antibiotic-resistance"
Infectious Disease
Weathered Plastic in the Water Grows Its Own City of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
On weathered plastic drifting from a lake into a river, researchers logged 102 new antibiotic-resistance gene subtypes moving into the surrounding water in five weeks.
Infectious DiseaseMexican Jalapeños Sickened 1,400 Americans in 2008. Eighteen Years Later, a Different Farm and the Same Import Gap Did It Again.
Salmonella Javiana in jalapeños from Sinaloa has sickened 345 people across 27 states. It is the second time in eighteen years that imported Mexican peppers have done this, and the FDA still physically inspects only about 1 to 2 percent of the food crossing the border.