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How bugs become superbugs
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen explains how superbugs are formed when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
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How bugs become superbugs
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A young girl, with cholera symptoms is treated at the Cholera Treatment Center of Diquini in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 23 August, 2016. 
The cholera epidemic that started in 2010 has infected some 800,000 and killed nearly 10,000 people.  / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL        (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
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