A WOMAN who was admitted to hospital with a UTI died after contracting a dangerous new strain of superbug. A strain of the ...

Around 52,000 people a year catch superbugs in the UK, causing around 2,000 deaths and costing the NHS around £180 million ...

Researchers from Monash University discovered two versions of a previously-unknown bacteriophage, a virus that kills bacteria, in the Merri Creek, a waterway that flows through Melbourne's northern ...

SYDNEY, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have discovered a new virus capable of killing a superbug in a Melbourne waterway, according to a new study published on Wednesday. Researchers ...

The virus – given an Indigenous name that translates to “dangerous Merri lurker” in English – has the potential to save ...

A common antibiotic used to treat liver disease could give rise to an “almost untreatable” superbug, scientists warned in a ...

Cases of the highly contagious norovirus rose 29 percent between September 23 and October 6, with suffering Brits moaning ...

An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this ...

Irish researchers have discovered more about how the superbug MRSA becomes highly resistant to antibiotics, making it more ...

Scientists have discovered the mechanism which allows the superbug methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to become highly resistant to antibiotics, paving the way for new approaches to ...