Drug-resistant 'superbugs' thrived long before di**saurs roamed the Earth
 

Drug-resistant 'superbugs' thrived long before di**saurs roamed the Earth
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Stealthy "superbugs" that cause dangerous infections are one of the world's biggest public health concerns. Yet these antibiotic-resistant microbes, which are spreading fast in hospitals, aren't a new phe**me**n.

Today's "enterococci" superbugs likely arose from ancestors dating back 450 million years ago, according to a new study in the journal Cell. That's around the time animals first emerged from the ocean and began crawling on land, and it's well before the age of di**saurs.

Scientists said that studying the evolutionary history of these virulent microbes could lead to better tools for fighting antibiotic resistance in the modern era.* Read more...

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