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Our growing resistance to antibiotics may be an ongoing health threat. Posted Updated Expires: Friday 12 December 4758 8:16pm Share By 2050, antibiotic resistance is predicted to cause millions of deaths per year and scientists are racing against time to find alternative treatments. Researchers are treating patients in a clinical trial using phage therapy which uses viruses to treat bacterial infections. This report from Sophie Scott and producer Nikki Tugwell and contains images some viewers ...

Phage therapy offers hope in fight against antibiotic resistance and superbugs Posted ThuThursday 14 updated TueTuesday 19 JanJanuary 2021 at 4:09am Scientists Ali Khalid and Ruby Lin collect samples from the sewage system at a nursing home. ( Share Print text only Cancel Fishing for samples from a raw sewage pond isnt terribly pleasant work, but Ruby Lin hopes what she collects here will help avert a medical catastrophe. Key points: Phage therapy involves the use of specific viruses to target...

Chief medical officer Paul Kelly has tried to calm worries about the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine, amid concerns the government has put all its eggs in one basket.

BBC News By Rebecca Henschke & Pijar Anugrah BBC World Service image captionYounger workers, like this Jakarta mall vendor, are seen as key to tackling the virus crisis Indonesia has rolled out a mass free Covid-19 vaccination programme in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus and get its economy going again. But the country is taking a markedly different approach to others. Instead of vaccinating elderly people in the first phase, after frontline workers, it will target younger working ...

Australia's chief medical officer defends AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine amid efficacy concerns

Australias state governments and infectious diseases experts divided themselves into two broad factions on Covid. One side wants restrictions we can live with.

The past four weeks of the pandemic have been ""crazy"" in the UK, says an Australian paramedic who spends his day rushing from one COVID patient to the next.

Australian paramedic in UKs chaotic COVID-19 surge says most colleagues have caught the virus TueTuesday 12 updated WedWednesday 13 JanJanuary 2021 at 8:30pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 2 Share Print text only Cancel Every morning, Declan Gregg covers himself from head to toe in PPE — mask, goggles, gloves and a full gown — before climbing into an ambulance and heading to the first call of the day. Key points: Ambula...

The vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotec, will be used to immunise young workers before the ageing population, with the aim of achieving herd immunity.

The snap three-day Greater Brisbane lockdown was ‘unreasonable’ and unlikely to have prevented the virus from spreading, a leading expert says.