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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Penalties and entry into force Penalties for non-compliance can lead to fines ranging from €35 million or 7% of global turnover to €7.5 million or 1.5 % of turnover, depending on the infringement and size of the company, per the parliament. The Council’s PR ...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules The Council’s PR further stipulates that the higher sanction (7%) would apply for violations of the banned AI applications, while penalties of 1.5% would be levied for the supply of incorrect information. Additionally, it says sanctions of 3% could be imposed ...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules The Council’s PR further stipulates that the higher sanction (7%) would apply for violations of the banned AI applications, while penalties of 1.5% would be levied for the supply of incorrect information. Additionally, it says sanctions of 3% could be imposed ...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules So there looks to be some scope for AI startups to face smaller penalties for infringements than AI giants may invite. The deal agreed today also allows for a phased entry into force after the law is adopted — with six months allowed until rules on prohibited...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules So the full force of the EU’s AI Act may not be felt until 2026. Carme Artigas, Spain’s secretary of state for digital and AI issues, who led the Council’s negotiations on the file as the country has held the rotating Council presidency since the summer, hail...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Carme Artigas, Spain’s secretary of state for digital and AI issues, who led the Council’s negotiations on the file as the country has held the rotating Council presidency since the summer, hailed the agreement on the heavily contested file as “the biggest mil...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules “We have achieved the first international regulation for artificial intelligence in the world,” she announced during a post-midnight press conference to confirm the political agreement, adding: “We feel very proud.” The law will support European developers, s...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Speaking on behalf of the European Parliament, co-rapporteurs Dragoș Tudorache and Brando Benifei said their objective had been to deliver AI legislation that would ensure the ecosystem developed with a “human centric approach” which respects fundamental right...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Speaking on behalf of the European Parliament, co-rapporteurs Dragoș Tudorache and Brando Benifei said their objective had been to deliver AI legislation that would ensure the ecosystem developed with a “human centric approach” which respects fundamental right...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Their assessment of the outcome was equally upbeat — citing the inclusion in the agreed text of a total ban on the use of AI for predictive policing and for biometric categorization as major wins. “Finally we got in the right track, defending fundamental righ...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules “Finally we got in the right track, defending fundamental rights to the necessity that is there for our democracies to endure such incredible changes,” said Benifei, who just a few weeks ago was sounding doubtful a deal could be found. “We are the first ones i...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules “We are the first ones in the world to have a horizontal legislation that has this direction on fundamental rights, that supports the development of AI in our continent, and that is up to date to the frontier of the artificial intelligence with the most powerf...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules So I think we delivered.” “We have always been questioned whether there is enough protection, whether there is enough stimulant for innovation in this text, and I can say, this balance is there,” added Tudorache. “We have safeguards, we have all the provision...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules “We have safeguards, we have all the provisions that we need, the redress that we need in giving trust to our citizens in the interaction with AI, in the products in the services that they will interact with from now on. “We now have to use this blueprint to ...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules “We now have to use this blueprint to seek now global convergence because this is a global challenge for everyone. And I think that with the work that we’ve done, as difficult as it was — and it was difficult, this was a marathon negotiation by all standards, ...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules “It is a full package. It is a complete deal. And this is why we spent so much time,” he intoned. “This is balancing user safety, innovation for startups, while also respecting… our fundamental rights and our European values.” Clear road ahead? Despite the E...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules “It is a full package. It is a complete deal. And this is why we spent so much time,” he intoned. “This is balancing user safety, innovation for startups, while also respecting… our fundamental rights and our European values.” Clear road ahead? Despite the E...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Despite the EU very visibly patting itself on the back tonight on securing a deal on ‘world-first’ AI rules, it’s not quite yet the end of the road for the bloc’s lawmaking process as there are still some formal steps to go — not least the final text will face...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules But given how much division and disagreement there has been over how (or even whether) to regulate AI the biggest obstacles have been dismantled with this political deal and the path to passing the EU AI Act in the coming months looks clear. The Commission is...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules But given how much division and disagreement there has been over how (or even whether) to regulate AI the biggest obstacles have been dismantled with this political deal and the path to passing the EU AI Act in the coming months looks clear. The Commission is...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules The Commission is certainly projecting confidence. Per Breton, work to implement the agreement starts immediately with the set up of an AI Office within the EU’s executive — which will have the job of coordinating with the Member State oversight bodies that wi...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules The Commission is certainly projecting confidence. Per Breton, work to implement the agreement starts immediately with the set up of an AI Office within the EU’s executive — which will have the job of coordinating with the Member State oversight bodies that wi...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules A scientific panel of independent experts will be appointed to advise the AI Office about GPAI models. “We will welcome new colleagues… a lot of them,” said Breton. “We will work — starting tomorrow — to get ready.” Opposition to the inclusion in the AI packa...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules In the event the deal agreed by the Spanish presidency does contain some obligations for GPAIs and foundation models. So it’s not the total carve out Mistral and its lobbyists have been pushing for. Responding to news of the political deal last night, France’...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Responding to news of the political deal last night, France’s digital minister’s office put out a statement attributed to Jean-Noël Barrot which said (translated from French using AI): “We will be carefully analyzing the compromise reached today, and in the co...
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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules Asked about this during the press conference, Artigas suggested the French AI startup would — once commercialized — be likely to fit in the “low tier” for GPAIs, meaning it would have only limited transparency obligations, since she said it does not hit the hi...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know The mysterious respiratory illness that may have sickened scores of dogs across the country could be caused by a new type of bacterial infection that may be very good at evading the canine immune system, researchers say. Some dogs have died from the illness, which starts...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Some dogs have died from the illness, which starts with causes a cough that can last for weeks, runny eyes and sneezing. In a development that might help shed light on the illness, which has affected a variety of dog breeds, researchers at the University of New Hampshir...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Some dogs have died from the illness, which starts with causes a cough that can last for weeks, runny eyes and sneezing. In a development that might help shed light on the illness, which has affected a variety of dog breeds, researchers at the University of New Hampshir...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Through a genetic sequencing of samples from an initial group of 30 dogs from New Hampshire who were infected last year and then an additional 40 from Rhode Island and Massachusetts who got sick this year, the researchers say they have discovered a previously unknown ger...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know The pathogen is “a funky bacterium,” said Dr. David Needle, pathology section chief at the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture at the University of New Hampshire. “It’s smaller than a normal bacterium in its size and in the size of its genome. Long story short, it’s...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know David Needle, pathology section chief at the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture at the University of New Hampshire. “It’s smaller than a normal bacterium in its size and in the size of its genome. Long story short, it’s a weird bacterium that can be tough to find a...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Long story short, it’s a weird bacterium that can be tough to find and sequence.” The germ “is new as a potential cause of disease, but it is likely to be— or to have evolved from — a component of the dog microbiome,” he said. Dogs as well as humans have multiple types ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Dogs as well as humans have multiple types of harmless bacteria and other microorganisms living both inside and outside the body. In the gut, they are thought to aid in digestion. The bacterium was discovered after a painstaking search. “After initial sequencing showed...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Dogs as well as humans have multiple types of harmless bacteria and other microorganisms living both inside and outside the body. In the gut, they are thought to aid in digestion. The bacterium was discovered after a painstaking search. “After initial sequencing showed...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know “After initial sequencing showed there were no known viral, bacterial or fungal pathogens, time consuming and dogged work by graduate student Lawrence Gordon showed that 21 of the initial 30 samples from New Hampshire had some genetic material from one atypical bacterial...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know The UNH team is sharing its results prior to publishing a research article, hoping they will give veterinarians some information as they deal with other respiratory syndrome outbreaks, he said. Scientists aren’t even sure yet whether the same bug is making dogs sick acr...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Scientists aren’t even sure yet whether the same bug is making dogs sick across the nation. Many researchers have wondered whether it was a bacterial or a viral pathogen. One thing veterinarians do know is that the germ is something they don’t recognize. Mike Stepien, a...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Many researchers have wondered whether it was a bacterial or a viral pathogen. One thing veterinarians do know is that the germ is something they don’t recognize. Mike Stepien, a spokesperson for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), said in an em...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know One thing veterinarians do know is that the germ is something they don’t recognize. Mike Stepien, a spokesperson for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), said in an email Wednesday the agency is working with multiple state animal health officials...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Mike Stepien, a spokesperson for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), said in an email Wednesday the agency is working with multiple state animal health officials and diagnostic labs regarding the respiratory illness in dogs that, "in rare cases, ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know "APHIS and partners have not yet definitively identified the cause of illness," Stepien responded in an email. "There are no reports of human illness affiliated with these cases at this time." New Hampshire is one of a handful of states that have reported cases of the r...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know New Hampshire is one of a handful of states that have reported cases of the respiratory infection in dogs. The Oregon Agriculture Department has received more than 200 case reports from veterinarians around the state since the beginning of August, spokesperson Andrea Ca...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know The Oregon Agriculture Department has received more than 200 case reports from veterinarians around the state since the beginning of August, spokesperson Andrea Cantu-Schomus said in an email. A very small percentage of the dogs have died, Cantu-Schomus said. Other stat...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know A very small percentage of the dogs have died, Cantu-Schomus said. Other states with possible cases include: In conversations with veterinarians, Dr. Karl E. Jandrey, a professor of clinical small animal emergency and critical care at the University of California, Davi...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Other states with possible cases include: In conversations with veterinarians, Dr. Karl E. Jandrey, a professor of clinical small animal emergency and critical care at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, has heard of potential cases in No...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Karl E. Jandrey, a professor of clinical small animal emergency and critical care at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, has heard of potential cases in North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia, as well. Because there is no test yet for ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Because there is no test yet for the illness and because many of the symptoms are similar to other respiratory infections, such as canine influenza and Bordetella (kennel cough), it’s unknown exactly how many dogs have been affected. With hundreds of cases identified by ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Because there is no test yet for the illness and because many of the symptoms are similar to other respiratory infections, such as canine influenza and Bordetella (kennel cough), it’s unknown exactly how many dogs have been affected. With hundreds of cases identified by ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know With hundreds of cases identified by symptoms reported only in Oregon, it’s likely there are thousands. Normally, to determine what antibiotics might work best against a particular type of bacteria, labs grow the bugs in a petri dish and then try to kill them with vario...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know With hundreds of cases identified by symptoms reported only in Oregon, it’s likely there are thousands. Normally, to determine what antibiotics might work best against a particular type of bacteria, labs grow the bugs in a petri dish and then try to kill them with vario...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Needle and his colleagues have not been able to grow the new bacteria in the lab. Nevertheless, its structure offers some clues about which medications might be the best choice to fight it, he said. The antibiotic doxycycline may be effective, he suggested. If it turns ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Nevertheless, its structure offers some clues about which medications might be the best choice to fight it, he said. The antibiotic doxycycline may be effective, he suggested. If it turns out that the New Hampshire researchers have found the right microbe, that may expl...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know The antibiotic doxycycline may be effective, he suggested. If it turns out that the New Hampshire researchers have found the right microbe, that may explain why some dogs are getting very sick, said Jandrey. Smaller pathogens are likely to have an easier time making it...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know If it turns out that the New Hampshire researchers have found the right microbe, that may explain why some dogs are getting very sick, said Jandrey. Smaller pathogens are likely to have an easier time making it past a dog’s defenses in the upper respiratory tract and ge...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Smaller pathogens are likely to have an easier time making it past a dog’s defenses in the upper respiratory tract and getting down into the lungs, he said. “If it goes into the lungs, there’s a risk of pneumonia,” he added. What are the dog infection symptoms? Accordi...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know “If it goes into the lungs, there’s a risk of pneumonia,” he added. What are the dog infection symptoms? According to Oregon’s Cantu-Schomus, the dogs’ illnesses largely develop in three ways: As an inflammation of the tubes that connect the throat to the lungs that i...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know As chronic pneumonia that is minimally or not responsive to antibiotics. As acute pneumonia that rapidly becomes severe and often leads to severe illness or possibly death in as little as 24 to 36 hours. If a dog has a cough that won’t quit and other respiratory sympto...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know As acute pneumonia that rapidly becomes severe and often leads to severe illness or possibly death in as little as 24 to 36 hours. If a dog has a cough that won’t quit and other respiratory symptoms, it’s recommended that the owner contact a veterinarian right away. Wh...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know If a dog has a cough that won’t quit and other respiratory symptoms, it’s recommended that the owner contact a veterinarian right away. While the respiratory symptoms seem to be like a viral illness, testing has been negative for a virus, Cantu-Schomus said. It’s very ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know It’s very unlikely that the cause will turn out to be viral, said Colin Parrish, a professor of virology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. “With the sequencing methods people use to look for unknown viruses, its signature would have been clear ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know “With the sequencing methods people use to look for unknown viruses, its signature would have been clear in a few days,” he added. So it’s possible that the New Hampshire scientists could have hit upon the right pathogen, although their results need to be confirmed by m...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know So it’s possible that the New Hampshire scientists could have hit upon the right pathogen, although their results need to be confirmed by more research, he said. What owners should do The American Kennel Club’s chief veterinarian offered advice for both dog owners and ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know What owners should do The American Kennel Club’s chief veterinarian offered advice for both dog owners and their vets. First, owners should make sure their pets are fully vaccinated and boosted against the known canine diseases, said Dr. Jerry Klein, a practicing vet f...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know What owners should do The American Kennel Club’s chief veterinarian offered advice for both dog owners and their vets. First, owners should make sure their pets are fully vaccinated and boosted against the known canine diseases, said Dr. Jerry Klein, a practicing vet f...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Jerry Klein, a practicing vet for 35 years and who was emergency department head emeritus at MedVet Chicago and currently works at the McKillip Animal Hospital in Chicago. Klein recommends that veterinarians suggest a full respiratory panel when people bring in sick dog...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know If a dog’s veterinarian doesn’t suggest the panel, then owners should request it; that will help determine if the germ is one that vets already know about or is something new. People can call their local emergency vets to find out if there has been an increase in respir...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know People can call their local emergency vets to find out if there has been an increase in respiratory infections coming in for treatment, Klein said. “That would be a way to find out whether there’s been an uptick in your area,” he said. “If there is, then they should try...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know “That would be a way to find out whether there’s been an uptick in your area,” he said. “If there is, then they should try to protect against exposure by avoiding grooming establishments and daycare.” Klein also recommends that groomers and daycare facilities not allow ...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know “If there is, then they should try to protect against exposure by avoiding grooming establishments and daycare.” Klein also recommends that groomers and daycare facilities not allow dogs to share food and water dishes. Even though a record number of Americans are expec...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Even though a record number of Americans are expected to travel during the holiday season, experts recommend that dog owners keep their pets out of kennels and other areas, such as dog parks, where infection might be more likely because of crowded conditions and close co...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know “When you congregate a bunch of animals together, there’s a larger likelihood of getting an infectious disease from other dogs,” said Dr. Kurt Williams, director of the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at the Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State Univers...
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Mysterious dog respiratory illness: What to know Kurt Williams, director of the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at the Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University. Still, he said, there are some facilities where you are less likely to have a problem because of how they are designed. “I’ve been ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Bacteria's rising resistance to antibiotics is making the drugs obsolete. Scientists are fighting back with viruses (pictured), CRISPR, designer molecules and cell-slicing enzymes. The bacteria may have entered her flesh along...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Bacteria's rising resistance to antibiotics is making the drugs obsolete. Scientists are fighting back with viruses (pictured), CRISPR, designer molecules and cell-slicing enzymes. The bacteria may have entered her flesh along...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Scientists are fighting back with viruses (pictured), CRISPR, designer molecules and cell-slicing enzymes. The bacteria may have entered her flesh along with shrapnel from the bomb detonated in Brussels Airport in 2016. Or per...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? The bacteria may have entered her flesh along with shrapnel from the bomb detonated in Brussels Airport in 2016. Or perhaps the microbes hitched a ride on the surgical instruments used to treat her wounds. Either way, the "supe...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Or perhaps the microbes hitched a ride on the surgical instruments used to treat her wounds. Either way, the "superbug" refused to be vanquished, despite years of antibiotic treatment. The woman had survived a terrorist attack...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? The woman had survived a terrorist attack but was held hostage by drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterial strain often picked up by surgery patients in hospitals. Only by combining antibiotics with a new, experimental...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Only by combining antibiotics with a new, experimental treatment did doctors finally rid her of the superbug . Devastating drug-resistant bacterial infections like this one are all too common, and they represent an ever-growin...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Devastating drug-resistant bacterial infections like this one are all too common, and they represent an ever-growing threat to global health. In 2019, antibiotic-resistant bacteria directly killed roughly 1.27 million people wo...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? In 2019, antibiotic-resistant bacteria directly killed roughly 1.27 million people worldwide and contributed to an additional 3.68 million deaths. In the U.S. alone, drug-resistant bacteria and fungi together cause an estimated...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? In the U.S. alone, drug-resistant bacteria and fungi together cause an estimated 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths each year. And the problem is getting worse: Seven of the 18 concerning bacteria tracked by the Centers ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? In the U.S. alone, drug-resistant bacteria and fungi together cause an estimated 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths each year. And the problem is getting worse: Seven of the 18 concerning bacteria tracked by the Centers ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? And the problem is getting worse: Seven of the 18 concerning bacteria tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are becoming more resistant to common antibiotics considered essential for maintaining public...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Meanwhile, drug companies have been slow to make new antibiotics capable of beating the microbes. Fewer than 30 antibiotics currently in the development pipeline target "priority" bacteria , as defined by the World Health Organ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Meanwhile, drug companies have been slow to make new antibiotics capable of beating the microbes. Fewer than 30 antibiotics currently in the development pipeline target "priority" bacteria , as defined by the World Health Organ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? This table of select antibiotic-resistant bacteria demonstrates how rapidly important types of resistance developed after the approval and release of new antibiotics. (Image credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? (Image credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adapted by Live Science from the CDC's "Select Germs Showing Resistance Over Time" Fact Sheet.) So some scientists are looking beyond traditional antibiotics for new w...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Adapted by Live Science from the CDC's "Select Germs Showing Resistance Over Time" Fact Sheet.) So some scientists are looking beyond traditional antibiotics for new weapons that won't fuel the rise of superbugs. Their emergin...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? So some scientists are looking beyond traditional antibiotics for new weapons that won't fuel the rise of superbugs. Their emerging arsenal features viruses that kill bacteria; CRISPR; and microbe-slaying molecules. They hope t...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Their emerging arsenal features viruses that kill bacteria; CRISPR; and microbe-slaying molecules. They hope that these experimental treatments, some of which have been tested in patients, will kill superbugs without promoting ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? They hope that these experimental treatments, some of which have been tested in patients, will kill superbugs without promoting resistance. "The vision, for me, is that we move beyond antibiotics and really just see a much bro...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? "The vision, for me, is that we move beyond antibiotics and really just see a much broader palate of options," Chase Beisel, leader of the RNA synthetic biology research group at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? But until these new therapeutics are ready for prime time, the world needs to curtail its overuse and misuse of antibiotics, which experts say is speeding up the rate at which these lifesaving drugs become obsolete. Related: S...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Related: Superbugs are on the rise. How can we prevent antibiotics from becoming obsolete? How antibiotic resistance emerges and spreads Antibiotics either directly kill bacteria or slow their growth , leaving the immune syst...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Related: Superbugs are on the rise. How can we prevent antibiotics from becoming obsolete? How antibiotic resistance emerges and spreads Antibiotics either directly kill bacteria or slow their growth , leaving the immune syst...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? How can we prevent antibiotics from becoming obsolete? How antibiotic resistance emerges and spreads Antibiotics either directly kill bacteria or slow their growth , leaving the immune system to finish the job. The drugs work...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? The drugs work in several ways — by preventing bacteria from building sturdy walls or making copies of their DNA , for instance. Growth-slowing antibiotics usually disrupt ribosomes, the factories in which bacterial cells make ...
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Dangerous 'superbugs' are a growing threat, and antibiotics can't stop their rise. What can? Growth-slowing antibiotics usually disrupt ribosomes, the factories in which bacterial cells make proteins. Many antibiotics shoot for the exact same molecular targets , and so-called broad-spectrum antibiotics' mechanisms are...