The Dreaded Superbug is Here

Maybe humans can evolve too....

http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/organisms/cre/

One can only hope .

If two researchers on Boston can think up the totally novel approach to Alzheimer's you posted earlier today, I have confidence that there are other researchers out there who'll come up with novel and effective approaches to antibiotics. Maybe some of the cancer research on bolstering the body's immune system has applications here.

How about fighting fire with fire, er a bacteria with viruses...?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8kccdm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

Oh no! A bug that will make us rely on our own immune systems adaptive abilities to fight it off. Oh! whatever shall we do?

Maybe get real sick and either die or not die perhaps depending on whether I am part of the half of the population that is fit, healthy, and regularly exercises their immune systems own ability to do what it supposed to do rather than take antibiotics or not?

Bring it on! I survived West Niles and marriage. I can take it. Heck, it might even help me lose that 20 pounds that I would like to as well!

Especially the marriage part, I have not managed to fight it off (yet), and have had several relapses, mostly due to brain damage from the first one.

When smallpox hit the Americas, it didn't kill just the weak or elderly. It killed entire populations regardless of their fitness, health, and exercise. When the Spanish flu hit the world, it preferentially killed people from 20 to 40.

From virus.stanford.edu:

"The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News)."

To say nothing of Yellow fever, ebola, HIV and a dozen others...Although there is some people that think viruses are the leading edge of evolution, that a significant portion of our DNA is from viruses....

..."The most deadly flu pandemic, sometimes called the Spanish flu, began in 1918 and sickened up to 40 percent of the world's population, killing an estimated 50 million people."

Nat Geo special....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ms04x6MvMY

http://www.livescience.com/48386-deadliest-viruses-on-earth.html

I'm immune to the "marriage bug", I got bitten once and it built up my (wallet) defence system.

Yes, but sadly, "marriage bug" immunity isn't long standing, unless you routinely get "booster" doeses!

My money's on Yellowstone.

Of course, I'll have Alzheimer's and won't know anyway.

Pretty much as stated before: The Universe is a violent place (actually an infinite set of places). What geophysically isn't trying to kill us, is trying to kill us. Then life springs up and multiplies, and nothing may stop it, unless it is this superbug, come to make mincemeat of us all.