> So I think the media focus on drug-resistant bacteria is oversimplified.
This article is from the UK. Our media's focus on drug-resistant bacteria isn't oversimplified, it's FUD. The whole nation is scared stiff of MRSA because the papers all used "the lab that gets results" - aka some dude in his shed who had no idea what he was doing. They used this lab because it repeatedly confirmed that large numbers of journalists samples (taken from various areas in hospitals) did indeed contain MRSA.
Not that there isn't a problem, and it merits attention, but the hysteria they whipped up was unwarranted.
I'd be less angry, but despite all this antibiotic fear, people still keep taking them for colds. Grr.
This article is from the UK. Our media's focus on drug-resistant bacteria isn't oversimplified, it's FUD. The whole nation is scared stiff of MRSA because the papers all used "the lab that gets results" - aka some dude in his shed who had no idea what he was doing. They used this lab because it repeatedly confirmed that large numbers of journalists samples (taken from various areas in hospitals) did indeed contain MRSA.
Not that there isn't a problem, and it merits attention, but the hysteria they whipped up was unwarranted.
I'd be less angry, but despite all this antibiotic fear, people still keep taking them for colds. Grr.