Via Mail Online :
" A family of ‘super-antibiotics’ capable of beating MRSA and other deadly infections has been created by scientists.
In tests, one of the drugs killed strains of the hospital superbug resistant to antibiotics already in use.
Others were more than a match for other potentially lethal germs, including food poisoning bug E coli, and acinetobacter, a soil-dwelling bug that is even harder to treat than MRSA.
The drugs, details of which emerged last night in the prestigious journal Nature, have been hailed as ‘an important step forward’.
Bacteria resistant to multiple drugs claim around 25,000 lives a year across the EU.
New treatments could save the taxpayer millions, as well as save lives.
Many superbugs are resistant to all but one or two antibiotics, and with resistance growing all the time, some scientists predict a ‘medical apocalypse’ in which hospital bugs will be completely untreatable."
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