Doctors stunned as superbugs resist antibiotics to attack patients

FLESH-EATING bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the US, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors.

Doctors stunned as superbugs resist antibiotics to attack patients

The cause? Staph, a bacteria better known for causing skin boils which used to be easily treated with standard antibiotic pills.

No more, say infectious disease experts, who increasingly are seeing these "superbugs" - strains of Staphylococcus aureus - unfazed by the entire penicillin family and other first-line drugs.

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