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Antibiotics Disposal Patterns May Lead to Superbug Development University of Michigan (U-M) investigators say that superbugs can easily form in wastewater treatment plants, due to the fact that not many pharmaceutical and chemical companies take care in rendering the antibiotics residues they produce inactive. In the large bacterial fermentation tanks that each treatment plant...	27 October 2011 05:03 GMT

Environment Affects How Superbugs Move Around In a new investigation on the spread and infection patterns displayed by antibiotic resistant bacteria – commonly known as superbugs – researchers discovered that their prevalence was higher in villages located along roads than in settlements that were out of reach, or difficult to get to. This appears...	30 September 2011 06:53 GMT

MRSA Bug Learns to Co-Exist Some of the world's most lethal superbugs, such as the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, have the ability to start generating large amounts of toxins inside the host organisms, namely in humans, once they infect them. When that happens, the immune systems of sufferers become highly act...	25 May 2009 15:01 GMT

'Superbugs' Created in Waste-Treatment Plants Waste-treatment tanks across the world offer bacteria the most appropriate spawning ground, as well as the ideal conditions for the appearance of antibiotics-resistant “superbugs”, similar to the MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). These centers of infection are made incredibly dangerous ...	13 May 2009 06:52 GMT

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