12 Killer Superbugs That Could Cause the World's Next Plague
by HOKU KRUEGER
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There’s nothing more inconvenient than the sudden onset of a sore throat and runny nose. But it’s not like you have to worry about dying or spreading a plague to all of mankind, right? Wrong. According to new report released by the World Health Organization, the phrase “biological threat” isn’t reserved for sci-fi movies anymore. Certain families of bacteria have become resistant to multiple antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics), meaning that we no longer have the power to prevent them from killing people. Yikes! To promote the research and development of new antibiotics, the WHO released a “dirty dozen” list of the families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health and ranked them in terms of medium, high or critical priority. Find out which bacteria are the most dangerous and how to avoid becoming infected.
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