THE discovery of bacteria that are massively resistant to antibiotics won’t make the front page these days – but when it happens in Antarctica, it is time to sit up and take notice (see “Superbugs spied off the Antarctic coast“).
The superbugs aren’t infecting penguins – yet – or even troubling the researchers who carried them there in their intestines and unwittingly deposited them in the sea via their sewage outfalls. But the discovery is further evidence that antibiotic resistance is no longer just a medical problem – it is an environmental one too. And that makes fighting it much harder.
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