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The Rise of The Superbugs:
Drug-Resistance Bacteria
By Angela S. Hoover
An increasing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains are turning
common conditions like strep throat,
pneumonia, Candida and gonorrhea
into untreatable infectious threats.
Bacterial infections that cannot be
treated have three possible outcomes:
longer, more painful recovery time;
inability to combat infections for
transplants and implants, rendering these new breakthroughs useless; or death. Of the 2 million plus
Americans annually infected with
bacteria that do not respond to antibiotics, 23,000 die, per the CDC’s
Antibiotic Resist