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We all know how terrifying antibiotic-resistant bacteria is. There's just no good way of fighting it, and it can lead to some seriously horrible things. The worst part is that the mutated bacteria is super easy to pick up — even at hospitals.

Luckily, there's a company called Galapagos that is testing a new class of antibiotics that will combat this type of super bacteria!! Though, it's only a matter of time until the bacteria mutates even stronger, right…?

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What do you think number one is??

If you guessed "bathroom" you'd actually be wrong!

An ABC correspondent went undercover and swabbed ten restaurants in three states to find how much bacteria there is in different parts of an eatery.

They founds some VERY inneresting results:

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Ugh, we knew it was going to get worse — and maybe it's our fault for wondering out loud just how bad it was going to get.

The meningitis outbreak caused by a fungus-tainted steroid injection has risen to 205 cases in 14 states.

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This is SO scary, and we don't know how these privatized food inspectors can live with themselves: there is a growing number of severe failures in oversight in food inspection, causing millions of Americans to fall sick… all for money.

The problem is that the food industry has taken over much of the FDA’s role in ensuring that what Americans eat is safe — for instance, in 2011, the FDA inspected ONLY 6 percent of domestic food producers and just 0.4 percent of importers!

The food industry is hiring for-profit companies who aren’t required by law to meet any federal standards and have no government supervision.

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Can we, right now and collectively as a world, decide to stop cutting corners when it comes to food production and make sure everything is safe??

Not wanting to be outdone by the Trader Joe's nut butter outbreak last week, we're hearing now that smoked salmon tainted with salmonella has sickened HUNDREDS

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We previously mentioned that a man in Nova Scotia performed a fecal enema on himself!

He did it to cure himself of the deadly bacteria C. difficile.

Well it's worked again!

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Many fast food places have taken to offering pre-sliced apples as a healthy side.

Well some of the pre-sliced apples might be infected with listeria.

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