One more impending crisis

Telegraph | News | Drugs to combat superbugs 'will soon be useless':
"The warning that the age of infectious disease control is almost over has come from Prof George Poste, Director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and an advisor to the US president."

As if nuclear war, global warming, obesity, urban sprawl, Hubbert's Peak, and all the other screaming headlines weren't enough to worry about, here comes one more - MRSA, methicilin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. Not mentioned here, but of related interest, is the rise in once rare infectious diseases like tuberculosis due to immigration, both legal and otherwise, from countries with less advanced standards of public health.