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Way worse than COVID: This is the end of the road for antibiotics

Get email notification for articles from Netta Ahituv Follow Apr. 22, 2021 5:26 PM Exactly five years have passed since the moment the world of medicine most feared became reality. In the spring of 2016, in Pennsylvania, a 49-year-old woman suffering from an infection was attacked by a bacterium bearing the gene scientists had feared: MCR-1. It was the first time a bacterium with this gene had been discovered in a human being. The bad news: The bacterium was resistant to the strongest antibiotic that existed, colistin. The worse news was that it could easily transmit that resistance to other bacteria. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control at the time, immediately grasped the meaning of the development. “It basically shows us that the end of the road isn’t very far away for antibiotics,” he told the Washington Post.

Corona Cure: 5 Israeli Teams Keep Their Eyes on the Prize

By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel Israeli research teams are working around the clock to find cures for the most severe cases of coronavirus, the While new vaccines prevent the coronavirus from spreading, they are not a cure for COVID-19. Furthermore, the vaccines are not 100% effective, meaning some people already vaccinated will get sick. The mutating nature of the virus also means the threat is changing, and it could take years to vaccinate billions of people around the world. Israel’s hospitals and universities are collaborating with the biotech industry to develop novel treatments and drugs to help solve the crisis and keep people out of hospitals, the report noted.

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