Antibiotics ⁽²⁾

According to reports from the Tokyo Shimbun and Japan's TBS news website, a rare "flesh-eating bacterium"—Streptococcus pyogenes, which can cause severe illness—is now spreading across Japan. As of June 2, Japan had reported 977 such cases this year. After entering the body through a wound,…

Original headline: Chinese and foreign scientists discover a strongly drug-resistant “superbug” gene Xinhua, Beijing, Nov. 23 (Reporter Peng Qian)—Chinese and foreign researchers have recently discovered a “superbug” gene in livestock and in humans that can withstand potent antibiotics, meaning that the “last line of defense”…