The Latest Breaking News from Bacteria

Echelford School has told parents two more pupils contracted a deadly bacterial infection after a six-year-old girl died following a Strep A outbreak at nearby Ashford Church of England Primary School

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Sebastian Rotschke, 27, was rushed to intensive care suffering multiple organ failure and needed a skin transplant after bacteria "ate away" half his thigh

The rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) around the globe represents a crisis on many fronts. Infections that are difficult, or impossible, to treat cause considerable public health and economic burdens, but also pose a serious threat to food security.

After being consumed, many foodborne bacteria produce toxins in the host. When the brain detects them, it will set off a chain of biological reactions, including nausea and vomiting. Read on for details:

Many livestock farmers treat their animals with antimicrobial medications. These are drugs that target bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. But using them the wrong way can have unwanted results. Animals are known to develop resistance to the drugs. This resistance has knock-on effects on animal and human health.

The bacteria is known to cause scarlet fever, throat infections and, in very rare cases, invasive disease

Another child ‘has developed same illness’ and recovering, school tells parents

Classmates and teachers at the primary school in Ashford, Surrey were given strong antibiotics by specialists from the UK Health Security Agency

Parents advised to be mindful of signs including characteristic rash and ‘strawberry tongue’