Lori Burrows News Today

Lori L. Burrows’ profile on The Conversation

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to preoccupy infectious disease experts, Canadian researchers are raising an alarm about another serious public health concern: the lack of new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections in Canada. Lori Burrows is a Canada Research Chair in Microbe-Surface Interactions and professor of biochemistry and biochemical sciences at McMaster University. She tells us how Canada could solve this problem — and why it needs to do it fast.

Antibiotics are dispensed at higher rates in Newfoundland and Labrador than in Canada as a whole, which suggests the need for provincial targets to prevent overuse, say researchers.

Hamilton has confirmed its first case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in a resident who recently returned from travelling to South Africa.

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