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Feds offer prizes for innovative ways to fight drug-resistant bacteria
Feds offer prizes for innovative ways to fight drug-resistant bacteria
Two federal programs are coordinating on $20 million in prizes for all phases of competition for new, innovative, and novel laboratory diagnostic tests to combat the development and spread of drug-resistant bacteria.Announced Sept. 8 by the National Institutes of Health and the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the competition — the Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge — is designed to tackle what officials call "a rising public health threat.""The growing incidence of serious infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria presents a critical risk to the public health of our nation," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "My hope is that this competition will spur exceptional innovators to rise to the challenge and deliver effective tools to help manage this significant problem."Antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause at least 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The problem was further underscored last week when CDC reportedly found a strain of E. coli with the antibiotic-resistance gene known as mcr-1 in a two-year-old Connecticut girl.
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$20 million contest for better tests to find drug-resistant bacteria
$20 million contest for better tests to find drug-resistant bacteria
The contest is on!The government wants fresh ideas on how to stop drug-resistant bacteria.And there are huge financial incentives.Millions of dollars in prizes, in fact.Since the 1940s, antibiotics have saved countless lives, however, those wonder-drugs are losing their effectiveness.Government health experts say this is an "all hands on deck" issue, because drug-resistant bacteria cause at least 2 million infections every year.And about 23-thousand people die."Antibiotics aren't working anymore for lots of these bugs," says Dr, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes for Health."This is a growing problem and it desperately needs better tools in order to be able to tackle it.
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Health agencies crowdsourcing solution to drug-resistant bacteria
Health agencies crowdsourcing solution to drug-resistant bacteria
(CNN/WRIC) — A group of government health agencies is asking for help finding a solution to drug-resistant bacteria, a growing threat to public health.According to the CDC, bacteria that can't be killed by antibiotics cause at least two million infections every year, and some 23,000 deaths."Antibiotics aren't working anymore for lots of these bugs," said Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health.
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