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A virulent new strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that causes severe disease could be spreading widely across Asia - posing significant challenges to global public health, a new study reveals.

Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) India is home to approximately 30,000 Asian elephants which ...

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