| Unfortunately, superbugs can also exchange survival secrets with other bacteria, even different species, allowing additional resistant organisms to grow. |
| Bacteria from the cut-price meat that we eat can remain in the gut for years and, warn scientists, breed superbugs untreatable in humans. |
| In recent years, some superbugs have even figured out how to resist vancomycin. |
| We no longer are dealing with pathogens, we are dealing with Superbugs. |
| In mutant form, superbugs can wreak havoc in hospitals and rest homes, infecting open wounds and forcing the closure of wards and operating theatres. |
| And scientists in the UK are looking for new ways to deal with antibiotic resistant hospital superbugs. |
