New Ways to Squash Superbugs

New Ways to Squash Superbugs In the article “new ways to squash superbugs” by Christopher T. Walsh and Michael A. Fischbach, scientist are trying to find new antibiotics to kill off the so-called superbugs spreading around. The article starts off by expressing the valid point of the spreading of harmful diseases. A 12-year-old boy named Omar Rivera, from Brooklyn, died after getting infected by a disease. This disease was Methicillian Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, otherwise known as MRSA. This bacterium is resistant to one of the most potent drug classes in the current antibiotic arsenal. Because of these dangerous bacteria’s developing resistance to antibiotics, it puts the risk of mortality higher for all other people affected by dangerous bacteria’s. It is hard for us to discover new drugs as fast as bacteria’s are resting pre-existing ones. Researchers began to search exotic environments for answers that could possibly help them in discovering new antibiotics. They figured out that some of the research gathered targeted single organisms or stopped short of killing them and could possibly stop the cycle of resisting bacteria’s. The articles base is about racing the resistance of bacteria. If it was up to me I would say that there would be no point in stopping and that there is not choice whether to stop research or not. More research and discovery needs to be done every year to keep up with pre-existing antibiotics that are drug resistant and don’t fight off bacteria as well as they used to. Overtime it will get easier because there is more information to be looked at because it builds up over time, but it will also be harder because the more time given the more resistant the diseases will get. The more research and discoveries done, the healthier someone will be. As stated earlier, MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcus aureus is a type of bacteria with lots of different strains it is also a