HEALTH: India steps up TB fight as fears of drug-resistant strains mount. “Some 130 years after the discovery of the tuberculosis bacteria, and more than 60 years after the discovery of antibiotic treatment, ‘we have managed by a combination of complacency and incompetence to allow this bacillus to mutate into a virtually untreatable form.'”

We need new varieties of antibiotics — or, better still, new germ-killing drugs that work on an entirely different principle.