Antibiotic resistance – one of the biggest threats to global health – could be on the rise in part because of increased air pollution, a new study has warned.
Researchers in China have found a global correlation between the a pollutant called PM2.5 in the air and cases of bacteria becoming immune to antibiotic drugs.
Although they’re not certain what’s causing the link, they speculate that antibiotic resistant bacteria are being transported on PM2.5 carried by the air.
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As if air pollution wasn’t deadly enough.
Now new research suggests tiny airborne pollutants may be linked to higher rates of drug-resistant lethal bacteria.
In the study, researchers from Zhejiang University, China and the University of Cambridge, England, concluded that air pollution is one of the leading factors driving antimicrobial resistance (AMR) after compiling data from 116 countries between 2000 and 2018, with more than 11.5 million lab test results covering nine bacterial pathogens and 43 types of antibiotics.
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TikTok sellers are trying exploit the popular Barbie film to sell illegal tanning nasal sprays that have been linked to skin cancer, kidney disease and erectile problems, it has emerged.
The sprays contain the banned chemical melanotan II which when snorted or injected tricks the body intro producing the pigment that darkens skins.
The social media rogues are selling the unregulated products in 20mg bottles that feature Barbie-inspired designs for up to £25 each, which they allege is a ‘special
President of the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police Clyde Boatwright says former political leaders and social media fueled youth homicide rates in Baltimore on ‘America’s Newsroom.’
A 70-year-old Baltimore County, Maryland, man accused of raping multiple women from 1978-1986, has been arrested with the help of forensic evidence collected by an emergency room physician and placed on microscope slides.
The Baltimore County Police Department announced Wednesday the arrest of James Shipe Sr., who has been
A construction team working on a highway expansion in Maryland in 1979 discovered human remains on the grounds of an 18th-century ironworks. Eventually, archaeologists uncovered 35 graves in a cemetery where enslaved people had been buried.
In the first effort of its kind, researchers now have linked DNA from 27 African Americans buried in the cemetery to nearly 42,000 living relatives. Almost 3,000 of them are so closely related that some people might be direct descendants.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Concerns are mounting that America may have sleepwalked into a ‘forever chemical’ public health crisis.
The tiny manmade compounds – which got their name because they don’t break down in the body – were a dream for manufacturers when they were invented almost 100 years ago because of their durability.
Their ability to repel water, stains, grease and oil, as well as make cardboard and plastic packaging stronger made meant they were used to make a wide range of everyday
A body found this month in the St. Lawrence River belonged to a man connected to an investigation into the deaths of eight migrants, Canadian authorities said Friday.
Akwesasne police said the coroner’s office identified the dead man as Casey Oakes, 30, a local resident who had been missing since March.
THIRD MAN SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE MIGRANTS INTO NORTH DAKOTA FROM CANADA
His boat was found near the bodies of eight migrants who died while trying to cross
A 71-year-old old drug dealer linked to the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams was sentenced to 30 months in prison in a New York courtroom on Tuesday.
Carlos Macci was part of a drug dealing organization blamed in the “Wire” actor’s fatal overdose from fentanyl-laced heroin.
Williams was found dead inside his Brooklyn penthouse apartment in September 2021. He was 54.
While the prosecution had sought at least a four-year sentence, Williams’ nephew and David Simon, the co-creator
A salmonella outbreak linked to lean ground beef sold in ShopRite stores in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York has left 16 people sick, including six who were hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ground beef that was labeled 80 percent lean was the only common food that the people who became ill in the outbreak reported eating. Investigators are working to identify the source of the ground beef, the agency said in a release. One
An outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground beef has sickened 16 people in the Northeast and hospitalized six others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency said nine people who had taken ill were from New Jersey, with others in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Investigators are working to identify the source of the ground beef, and all of those who remembered the type of ground beef they ate and where they bought it reported
