Category Archives: Infection
Rare hospital infection hitting heart patients
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5404253/Is-blood-eating-hospital-bug.html A killer ‘blood-eating’ bacterial infection that may have affected thousands of British heart patients has claimed seven more lives in the past year, The Mail on Sunday has learned. The death toll from the hospital bug mycobacterium chimaera (MC), spread by contaminated heart surgery machines, continues to rise a year after the problem was […]
Why scarlet fever is making a comeback
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/scarlet-fever-victorian-diseases-returning-uk/ Antibiotics halted its spread last century, but now the disease is back with a vengeance. Lois Rogers looks at what’s causing the spike When Sarah Allen took her sickly, feverish toddler to the doctor, his red rash, high temperature and strangely coated tongue were dismissed as a virus that happened to coincide with a […]
Australian flu threatens Britain
http://subscriber.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/australian-flu-prevent-virus-symptoms-look/ The super-charged Australian flu virus sweeping Britain has been busy claiming alarming numbers of victims and creating an NHS crisis on a new scale. In what is now shaping up to be the country’s worst flu crisis in 20 years, 85 people have died so far this winter. In the first week of the […]
Post baby operation linked to superbug infection
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5355859/Post-baby-mesh-operation-linked-superbug-infections.html#ixzz5FTMFWXOB For more than a decade, Annette Power has had to take antibiotics at almost every mealtime. ‘I got through them like Smarties,’ says Annette. ‘I’ve had permanent infections for about 16 years — I’d finish one course of antibiotics on a Friday, the pain would come straight back and on the Monday I’d be given […]
Could viruses that eat bacteria solve the superbug crisis?
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The truth about antibiotics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/truth-antibiotics-do-really-need-take-full-course/ James Sutton battled doctors for six weeks to get a ten-day course of amoxicillin for his severe bronchitic chest infection. When he got the antibiotics, they didn’t really work and, what’s more, he had a major allergic reaction which caused a huge outbreak of hives all over his torso, adding to his misery. “No […]
Cancer alert over toxic tattoo inks
The Sunday Times 22 September 2013 SCIENTISTS are calling for more research into tattoos amid fears that the toxic inks can permeate into people’s bodies and may increase the risk of cancer. With an estimated one in five adults now bearing tattoos, British scientists have found evidence that nanoparticles from the ink can get into […]