This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the ...

Strathdee saw firsthand the effects that antimicrobial resistance can have on health when her husband nearly died from a ...

Here are 10 of our most important and interesting superbug stories from 2024. New strains of a superbug called hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) have been detected in 16 countries ...

Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug. The AI helped narrow down thousands of potential chemicals to a handful ...

The largest epidemiological study to date on multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Saudi hospitals highlights the need ...

The highly contagious norovirus can survive in fabrics such as clothes for up to a month, experts have warned as they urge ...

The parents of a young amateur footballer told of their despair last night after he was killed by a hospital superbug. Troy Eames, 23, only went into hospital for treatment on an ingrowing toenail.

Oxford team reports hopeful results in trials as military experts say UK should stock supplies of Black Death inoculation ...

Scientists have discovered how the hospital superbug C.diff rapidly evolves resistance to the frontline drug used for treatment in the UK. Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a type of bacteria which ...

Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge. There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague ...