Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic could herald a rise in superbugs

Friday, May 15, 2020 - 07:50 in Health & Medicine

Copious use of hand sanitizer and disinfectant is crucial to fight COVID-19, but it could be setting Canada back in the battle against superbugs. Microbiologists say antimicrobial resistant organisms, or superbugs, are a pandemic on the same scale as COVID-19, though it will play out on a much longer timeline.

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