Published on Friday, April 04, 2008.
Source: The Telegraph

Doctors have warned that if a superbug which is known to be even more resistant to antibiotics than clostridium difficile and MRSA takes hold in hospitals, the country could face a pandemic.
The acinetobacter bug is being treated with older antibiotics because newer ones do not work. There are fears that injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have passed the infection on in civilian hospitals.


http://www.blacklistednews.com/iNP/view.asp?ID=6128

"Even Colistin, an antibiotic discovered 60 years ago, has recently been used. But now it occasionally fails as the bacteria has become resistant."

thats crazy. so does bacteria go through evolution or something?

^Oh definitely, (viruses, bacteriophages, pathogens, mutagens) that's how strains become resistant, they alter their genetic 'make-up' a sort of the survival of the fittest, but they must also find a want to spread, otherwise once they 'kill' their host then that would be the end and from what this article says, that just isn't so. What are we doing to ourselves. :doh!:

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