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Drug resistant killer bugs

The bugs are evolving faster than we are and faster than the drugs we develop to fit them. That's not good news.

Athletes with infected scrapes that won't go away. Hundreds of soldiers returning from Iraq with wound infections that don't respond to most antibiotics. Often deadly pneumonias. Ninety-thousand patients who die in hospitals every year. That's the toll in the U.S. from germs that are resistant to existing medicines.

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