as my sister says, bacteriomophages!

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Scientists employ MRSA 'enemies'

Scientists in Glasgow believe they have found a way to beat the hospital superbug MRSA.
Researchers at Strathclyde University have developed wound dressings and stitches containing waterborne viruses which kill the bacteria.

i think bacteriophages are enormously cool. they are little viruses that go eat the bacteria; thus the fancy latin name for bacteria-eater.

mrsa is really scary-- no, strike that, it's really fucking scary. it stands for methicillin resistant staph aureus. to make things even better, there's now a version that is vancomycin resistant as well.

when my dad was sick, he was colonized with mrsa, and we don't know if it was one of the things that was making him sick (due to also being infected with it) when he was septic.

i'm probably colonized with it, too. but not infected with it. hopefully, if i ever get infected with it due to this colonization, it'll be after five years from now, after these scots have the bacteriophage dressings on the market.