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Honey made by ants could treat some bacterial and fungal infections

An ant species in Australia makes honey that killed some bacterial and fungal infections in the lab, raising hopes that its properties could be used in new drugs

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Honeypot ants (Camponotus inflatus) hanging from the ceiling of a nest, engorged with nectar

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New antibiotic may clear Clostridium difficile and stop reinfection

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C. difficile spore in gold emerges from a bacterium in turquoise

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MRSA could be prevented with genetically engineered antibodies

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (13403526be) Demonstrators with the Millions Missing organization gather outside of the White House on September 19, 2022, laying down on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience to call for urgent governmental action for the millions of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis, long-term COVID, and other infection-associated, complex- chronic diseases. Civil Disobedience Health Care Protest At White House, Washington, d.c., United States - 19 Sep 2022

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Long-neglected chronic conditions finally come into the spotlight

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A protest outside the White House, Washington DC, in September 2022 urging government action for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis, long covid and other infection-associated chronic conditions

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We’re starting to understand how viruses trigger chronic conditions

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Health workers treat people with cholera at a hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, in January 2023

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Global cholera outbreak: More than 1 billion people are at risk

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Lesbian couple with newborn child hugging.

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A single injection could protect babies against RSV over winter

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A person receives a smallpox vaccine to protect against monkeypox in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in August 2022

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How the covid-19 pandemic helped tackle Ebola and monkeypox in 2022

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A child sitting in a hospital bed

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Why are children catching so many illnesses this winter?

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A transmission electron micrograph of Streptococcus pyogenes

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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t there a vaccine?

A vaccine for strep A may not be very profitable for pharmaceutical companies and there are technical challenges that make such vaccines difficult to develop, but early-stage clinical trials are underway

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Group A streptococcus bacteria

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What we know so far about strep A child deaths in the UK

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E. coli bacteria

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Vaccine to prevent UTIs could be taken as a dissolving tablet

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Children in the UK may be more at risk of infections and other health complications this winter compared with previous years

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Flu, RSV and cost of living will all harm UK child health this winter

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Allowing the monkeypox virus to spread raises the risk it may mutate to become more transmissible

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Monkeypox: A dangerous variant circulating in the DRC could go global

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