Terrible news. Just terrible. Urgent issue (antibiotic resistant bacteria hits USA!)

And don't forget rapid late tectonics which generated 1000's more earthquakes in the past... we are in a period of quiet. But seriously, although you "yawn" at this news, it IS very serious. Antibiotic resistance is developing at a much faster pace than new classes of antibiotics are being developed. It is very scary. My Grandfather died of a MRSA infection and the problem is only escalating. Microbes are even developing resistance to compounds that were once thought to have no risk of resistance - such as silver (do no use silver infused clothing products by the way as the silver leaches into the environment and is leading to resistance).The resistance gene reported in this article is on a plasmid so it can easily be spread by horizontal gene transfer. Fortunately, this particular microbe is still susceptible to other antibacterials. But transfer this resistance gene into an organism with resistance to other antibacterials and there will be deaths.Only 2 new classes of antimicrobials have been marketed in the last 50 years! Most of the R&D has been spent on developing analogues. Our development on new classes of antimicrobials needs to increase 10 fold over the next couple of decades in order to stay ahead of developing resistance. Novel classes of antimicrobials or more of the same?This is not to say that the OP was not overly sensational and that Faith's position is not ridiculous.HBD