It seems a lot of people are terrified of antibiotic resistant bacteria and their potential for infecting humans, wiping them out. Whatever will we do when our most powerful drugs cannot kill the most highly-specialised bacteria? Allow them to be out-competed by the older, less-specialised versions, that's what. The resistant bacteria are specialised to survive in high-antibiotic environments like hospitals, but out in the wild they're unheard of. Nobody is going into hospital with Golden Staph infections, are they? It's not because the hospitals have been really good at keeping them contained. It's just that they are so bad at surviving outside that they die out quickly beyond the hospital doors.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - I'm not a doctor or a microbiologist, though.
PPS - I just think they're not in the wild, and they would be by now if they were so superior.
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