WHO warns of post-antibiotic era

From The Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Some 440,000 new cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis were detected last year. Malaria is likewise acquiring resistance. Some HIV-infected individuals are developing resistance to antiretroviral medicines. And, recently, a bacteria was discovered in the drinking water of New Delhi that has the gene NDM-1, which makes the bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics. This bacteria has spread to germs that cause cholera and dysentery.