Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 24, 2002 @07:16AM from the gorillas-to-eat-the-snakes dept.

oliphaunt writes "This! morning! at! Yahoo! there! is! a! story! about! drug-resistant! bacteria! This is interesting because, as of July 5 of this year, "It was the first case of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States." Nobody can PROVE it of course, but this is probably a result of overprescription of antibiotics, and people not following doctor's directions, combined with stuff like antibiotic hand soap available over the counter. So what do we do when the bugs are resistant to everything we have? The answer is we die."

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Isn't nature evil. by Vodak · 2002-09-24 07:33 · Score: 1, Troll

This is the natural order of things. The strongest things survive, nature will find a way. HIV isn't killing as many people as it should so nature is developing a new device to thin out the human population.