Overuse of antibiotics ‘risks return to dark ages of life-threatening surgery’
Warning comes as report shows 3 million common surgical procedures could be hazardous if infections become resistant to antibiotics. Read more here.
Plague could be weaponized
Since at least the 1300’s, armies have used plague as a bioweapon. After the Mongol Tatars catapulted plague-infested corpses into the besieged city of Caffa (Crimea) in 1346, the ‘Black Death’ [...]
