The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can’t stop microbes from mutating and becoming resistant to even our strongest drugs. But it is working harder than ever to come up with an effective containment strategy to stop the spread of these lethal bacteria.

In 2017, the CDC’s Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory collected 5,776 “highly resistant” germs from all 50 states in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Of these, 221 had evolved to carry a rare and formidable resistance gene. These are “nightmare bacteria”; bugs that are extremely difficult to treat, or …read more

Source: Mashable