By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists who unlocked the genetic code of bacteria grown from a soldier who died of dysentery in World War I say it revealed a superbug already resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics decades before they were in common use. The discovery sheds light on the history of antibiotic resistance - now a global health threat - and offers fresh clues on how to tackle dysentery, a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of children every year in developing countries. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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