Rattle wrote:
] ] A bacterial infection that overpowers most antibiotics
] ] has escaped the confines of hospitals and is showing up
] ] in alarming numbers among the general public in
] ] California, according to health officials.
]
Crap. There is promising research into macrophages, however. (Macrophages are viruses that go after one or two species of bacteria exclusively.) Theoretically, a virus exists for every species of bacterium, so a person could be treated for exactly the bacterial infection they have, without the 'collateral damage' effect of most antibiotics. Viruses also mutate right along with the bacteria. Hopefully more money will go into this branch of research.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.

RE: The super-bugs have arrived!