Moderately good journalism. Touches on many of the factors relating to antibiotic resistance. When it addresses solutions, however, it emphasizes more drugs, rather than avoidance of meat, fish, and poultry grown with antibiotics; always asking your physician whether antibiotics are absolutely essential; changing our method of funding both drug testing and teaching physicians about new drugs; stopping direct-to-consumer drug advertising; and avoiding antibacterial soaps that increase bacterial resistance while killing fish. The only real inaccuracy is blaming physicians for over-using new antibiotics, rather than pointing out that the pharmaceutical industry has always spent incredibly large sums of money encouraging physicians ... More »

This article is a rude awakening to the evolution of infectious diseases because of the overuse of antibiotics. Makes one think twice before going to a hospital or even shacking the hand of a friend.

This article brings to the layman in as simple a form of educational information as is possible on a subject of critical concern in a culture bent on lowering the cost of medical and hospital care. In effect it postulates that our surgery rooms are incubators for deadly strains of bacteria that are multi-drugresistant and whose viability is enhanced by the antibiotic use in the food supply. As a U S health Dept., and later U.S. Air Force Medical Technologist, my sister studied these and many other microbes for many years utilizing mass spectrometors, electron microscopy, petri dish culture, and antibiotic suceptibility and has devoted years to medical research. Thus my knowledge of the matter extends beyond a cursory ... More »

This good report specifically identifies problems that have been known for years. It explains some of how these things spread and some of the efforts to combat them. Inadvertently perhaps, it also shows the failures we have in this combat. For wrong reasons, government agencies fail to act and even act in the wrong ways similar to denying treatment for aids to men who have sex with men or to women prostitutes. Of course, the continued treatment of chickens and cows with antibiotics, becomes treatment of us and our children.

it added to my awareness that even hospitals can experience a helpless feeling and are not immune from disasters.