Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Super acne? Drug-resistant zits on the rise - Skin and beauty- msnbc.com
MSNBC reports: "While drug-resistant acne can be devastating, the real danger is that it contributes to deadly drug-resistant staph infections. 'The dangerous thing about putting zillions of folks on antibiotics is that this pressures bacteria to develop resistance methods,' says Dr. Peter Lio, a Northwestern University dermatologist. 'So while the acne bacteria almost never causes life-threatening infection, the ways that it can be resistant to our antibiotics can be passed over to bacteria that can cause life-threatening infection, which means that our only weapons against the bad guys suddenly do not work anymore.'"

Comment: If only there was no such thing as micro-evolution. The latest medical news is once again providing proof that the overuse of antibiotics means that the strongest and fittest bugs live on to fight another day.

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