All news on the topic: Superbugs

Ashley Timbery, 29, seemed perfectly healthy until she fell down outside and was rushed to hospital in Sydney, Australia, where doctors found she had a superbug

Called Zosurabalpin, the new antibiotic has the potential to defeat lethal antibiotic-resistant superbugs that could kill 10 million people annually by 2050

Superbugs caused by over-use of drugs on factory farms kill nearly 2,000 Brits a year, it's been claimed, and sickness from infections cost the economy more than a billion pounds, a study found

Venera Sapurina, 26, from Tatarstan in Russia was on a trip to South Korea when she was suddenly rushed to hospital unconscious after hitting her head in a nasty fall in the shower

Lord Ara Darzi is a pioneering surgeon and health reformer who is setting up a specialist centre to combat what he has warned could be the next global health threat

X-ray research leads to surprise find - zinc affects the stability of cells in superbug and removing it kills them, writes Dr Miriam Stoppard