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Articles tagged with "Superbugs"

26.05.26

Environment

‘We don’t set the price, we take it’: price squeeze leaves dairy farmers struggling to survive

Lack of protections have left farmers vulnerable to a historic price swing that could put them out of business

5 minute read

01.04.26

Global Superbugs

UK farmers lobbied government over controversial antibiotic use

Union called for a rejection of EU’s stricter rules despite rising concerns over drug-resistant superbugs

3 minute read

31.03.26

Environment

Poland’s packed ‘ghost farms’ present threat of undetected disease

Almost 1,000 industrial-scale poultry farms may be operating outside EU rules – and shipping chicken around the continent

6 minute read

21.08.25

Global Health

‘We’re flying blind’: Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals face spiralling infections crisis

Sudden surge in mass casualty events, many at aid points, has created conditions where bacteria can spread unchecked

8 minute read

13.06.25

Global Superbugs

MPs raise the alarm over superbug risk

Public Accounts Committee says UK has missed key targets and is weakening its ambitions

3 minute read

11.06.25

Global Superbugs

Journalist, advocate, policy adviser? My strange role in the fight against superbugs

Misbah Khan on how she helped inform UN plans to tackle a growing global threat

05.06.25

Global Superbugs

UK unprepared for major animal disease outbreak, report warns

National Audit Office flags serious flaws in biosecurity despite rising threat of disease

4 minute read

13.03.25

Environment

How decades of factory farming paved the way for today’s superbugs crisis

A new film lays bare the existential threat driven by antibiotic overuse – and comes after years of warnings

31.01.25

Environment

Diseased chicken entered UK after post-Brexit delays to border checks

British consumers were exposed to drug-resistant salmonella because new protocols took years to come into force

09.01.25

Global Superbugs

‘Nobody cares’: the women living with untreatable UTIs

Sweeping antibiotic use in the US means a once innocuous condition now leaves some suffering for years

19.11.24

Global Superbugs

Gaza bombardment worsens superbug outbreaks

Israeli blockades and bombings have left doctors without basic medicines to treat infections

6 minute read

27.09.24

Global Health

UN pledges to cut superbug deaths by 2030

Signatories have agreed to secure clean water in medical facilities and cut antibiotic pollution in the environment

27.09.24

Environment

Cargill cows contaminated with vital antibiotics

Cattle slaughtered at Cargill meat-packing plants tested positive for traces of some of the most important drugs for human health

24.09.24

Global Superbugs

‘The final warning sign’: drug-resistant typhoid is spreading across Pakistan

The vast majority of people around the world who get sick from typhoid are now infected by a drug-resistant strain. Options are limited and death rates are higher.

16.09.24

Global Superbugs

Superbugs will kill three every minute by 2050

A study in The Lancet has forecast that without action 39 million people will die of drug resistant diseases over the next 25 years

Naveed lies in a hospital bed

04.09.24

Global Superbugs

When the drugs don’t work: the people facing the reality of a superbugs crisis

Deaths from drug-resistant infections are projected to soar – and everyone is at risk

09.08.24

Global Superbugs

What is antimicrobial resistance – and why is it a global health threat?

Drug-resistant infections are a growing threat worldwide. Here’s the science behind it – and how we can tackle the issue

Baby Yusra lies in a hospital bed connected to machines and tubes

08.08.24

Global Superbugs

‘It’s at the scale of a pandemic’: superbug emergency puts babies on the frontline

In Nigeria and Ethiopia, neonatal sepsis poses a major threat to newborns. And as antibiotic resistance grows, a crisis is mounting

10.04.24

Global Superbugs

‘A recipe for disaster’: what I learned going undercover on India’s chicken farms

Our reporting revealed that Venky’s is marketing antibiotics for growth promotion and ‘preventative use’

05.04.24

Global Superbugs

Indian poultry giant selling antibiotics for growth promotion on farms

Venky’s marketing products containing vital medicines to be used in farming practices opposed by WHO

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