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If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail. Somehow the child has acquired an antibiotic resistant infection – even to drugs to which they may never have been exposed. How?Unfortunately, this child also…

If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail. Somehow the child has acquired an antibiotic resistant infection – even to drugs to which they may never have been exposed. How?Unfortunately, this child also…

From San Diego to Beijing to London and Moscow, scientists are working at breakneck speed to create a vaccine that will stop the spread of a virus that has killed nearly 400,000 people worldwide in the past six months.There are few parallels in history to the war scientists are waging against the novel coronavirus, which…

June 2, 2020Updated 4:58 p.m. ETSince the outbreak began, researchers have rushed to publish research about the new coronavirus spreading swiftly through the world. On Tuesday, for the second time in recent days, a group of scientists has questioned the data used in studies in two prominent medical journals.A group of scientists who raised questions…

June 1, 2020Updated 3:01 p.m. ETAn international team of scientists, including a prominent researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has analyzed all known coronaviruses in Chinese bats and used genetic analysis to trace the likely origin of the novel coronavirus to horseshoe bats.In their report, posted online Sunday, they also point to the great…