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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…

Researchers whose canceled U.S. grant caused an outcry from other scientists urge preventive monitoring of viruses in southwestern China.The horseshoe bat genus, Rhinolophus, seems to have originated in China tens of millions of years ago and has a long history of co-evolution with coronaviruses.Credit...DeAgostini/Getty ImagesJune 1, 2020Updated 3:01 p.m. ETAn international team of scientists, including…

LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be waning. For vaccine developers, that could be a problem. FILE PHOTO: Professor Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute, and Chief Investigator of the trials, holds a phial containing the Ebola vaccine at the Oxford Vaccine Group Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical…

Churches. Hair salons. Restaurants. Malls. What do they all have in common? They’ve all been cleared to reopen in San Diego County amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — and by and large, they all require people to congregate inside, potentially with strangers.This comes as an increasingly vocal group of scientists has sounded the alarm about…

May 30, 2020 | 11:54am | Updated May 30, 2020 | 12:50pm Enlarge Image Chickens roost at a poultry farm in Taizhou, China. Getty Images The coronavirus has killed over 365,000 people worldwide in just five months — but that’s nothing compared to what could be coming if humans don’t clean up their act when…