drug-resistant, flesh-eating super bug kills more Americans than the AIDS virus, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warns.

The potentially fatal germ that enters the bloodstream has escaped its hospital setting, the CDC said Tuesday in its first overall estimate of the invasive disease

All Bedford County, Virginia Schools will close Wednesday after a high school student who was hospitalized for more than a week with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection has died.

All 21 schools will close for cleaning to keep the bacterial infection from spreading

Because five babies were already tested positive for a strain of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a hospital in Lancashire has closed its intensive case unit (ICU) for newborns.

The affected babies at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, while none of them have been seriously hit by the strain, are being taken cared of in separate area, the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust reported

Many American schools are reporting outbreaks of a very contagious skin infection among athletes.

Doctors say several hospitalized students infected with staph have also shown an antibiotic-resistant strain that is sometimes associated with serious skin problems and blood disorders

In a bid to control the spread of hospital-borne infections, especially superbug, British hospitals are banishing traditional white coats, neckties, long sleeves and jewelry for doctors.

From January next year, British doctors will replace their white coats with plastic aprons to comply with a new "bare below the elbows" dress code for staff