The Next Generation of Drug Resistant Bacteria - Maryn McKenna

Maryn McKenna has bad news for nose-pickers: MRSA is a bacteria that loves to make nostrils home. This won't necessarily lead to an infection, but regular visits to the nose leaves fingers that then might poke at broken skin unclean, potentially spreading an infection that won't respond to most antibiotics. But McKenna says that MRSA is much less troubling than the next-generation of resistant bacteria: CRE's (Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae) are resistant to even the antibiotics of last resort, and have researchers scrambling to develop a new antibiotic in response to the bacterial threat. In the meantime, wash your hands.