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Researchers also plan to investigate whether certain stars are resistant to the disease, opening the door to breeding animals that are more resilient.

“This makes these ‘superbug’ bacteria very hard to treat because they’re resistant to some of the strongest antibiotics we have,” Gohil said.

Once treated, these animals may carry antibodies to the virus that makes them resistant to reinfection, at least temporarily.

Although that figure dropped to 71,000 last year, experts are increasingly worried about a small but growing number of antibiotic resistant cases.

Even Israel’s much-vaunted arms industry, which has used the war in Gaza as proof-of-concept for its wares and has proven to be relatively resistant to opprobrium, is being affected.