Invisible Enemy: The Superbug Threat

Posted in Environmental Studies, Health, Science and Technology

Hospitals across Canada are battling a hidden epidemic. It’s an epidemic of so-called superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. The superbugs are killing thousands of Canadians every year. More cases are being reported all the time. In this News in Review story we’ll hear from some Canadians who went into a hospital to get healed, and got a lot sicker instead. We’ll show you what some hospitals are doing to try to control superbug outbreaks. And we’ll look at a new and deadly strain that attacks the young, the fit, and the healthy.

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