Yesterday's admission by Britain's Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies should send shock waves through the world medical community and the international drug industry. The war between man and microbe is being lost to the superbug. Antibiotics no longer work. Or at least they are becoming less and less effective in the treatment and control of disease.
85 years after Fleming's discovery of penicillin western medical practice has bellied up like a dead fish in polluted waters. The analogy has

By Dedrick Muhammad


