Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Typhoid could be latest medical risk to UK as strains build tolerance to antibiotics
dailyrecord.co.ukTyphoid could be the next medical crisis in store for the UK, as the ancient illness is building a resistance to the medication that treats it.The highly contagious bacterial infection has been around for more than 1,000 years and antibiotics are the only way to effectively treat Typhoid.But researchers say the Typhoid bacterium is evolving to become more drug-resistant, Wales Online reports.Earlier this week, Polio was detected in Britain for the first time in ten years, with experts declaring a national incident.Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi),the bacterium that causes Typhoid, has reportedly been building up its resistance to oral antibiotics for the last 30 years.After sequencing genomes of 3,489 different S Typhi strains contracted from 2014 to 2019 in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India, experts found that one strain particular strain was very resistant.Called (XDR) Typhi, it is not only resistant to trademark antibiotics such as ampicillin and chloramphenicol, but is also building up a resilience to newer drugs too.These include treatments such as fluoroquinolones and third-generation cephalosporins.XDR Typhi cases are on the rise globally and while it is mainly found in Asia, health chiefs have warned it represents a global threat, including to the UK.The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated antibiotic resistance as a global health emergency.Jason Andrews, an infectious disease specialist from Stanford University in the US, said: "The speed at which highly-resistant strains of S Typhi have emerged and spread in recent years is a real cause for concern.It highlights the need to urgently expand prevention measures, particularly in countries at greatest risk."The latest development follows
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