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Superbugs Lurking Where You Might Not Expect

  • December 05, 2019

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published their first Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report in 2013, in which they estimated there were 2 million antibiotic-resistant infections, accounting for 23,000 deaths that year. In the recent 2019 report, the CDC estimates that 3 million people are infected with superbugs each year, resulting in 25,000 deaths. To put that into perspective, on average, someone in the U.S. is infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium every 11 seconds,...