Insights and Stories on Superbugs

KFC to curb antibiotic use in U.S. chickens it buys

Apr. 7, 2017 at 5:19 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — Yum Brands’ U.S. KFC chain plans to curb the use of antibiotics in its chicken supply, making it the last of the big three chicken restaurants to join the fight against the rise of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs. KFC, the second-biggest U.S. chicken […]

Shareholders press Yum for stricter antibiotics policy

Aug. 9, 2016 at 4:59 pm CDT

By Lisa Baertlein

U.S. sees first case of bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic

May. 27, 2016 at 5:02 pm CDT

By Bill Berkrot Ransdell Pierson

EU to review use of last-resort antibiotic on farms

Jan. 14, 2016 at 8:25 pm CST

By Reuters

U.K. review calls for urgent cuts to antibiotic use in livestock

Dec. 8, 2015 at 8:02 pm CST

By Kate Kelland

New ‘superbug’ gene found in animals, people in China

Nov. 18, 2015 at 6:06 pm CST

London | Reuters — A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China — including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said Wednesday. The discovery was described as “alarming” by scientists, who called for […]