Superbug, super-fast evolution - Evolution in the News

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is an increasingly common medical problem. MRSA is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that has evolved multiple drug resistance. Infections caused by normal S. aureus are fairly easy to treat with antibiotics, but an infection caused by MRSA is very difficult to treat and can be life threatening. In this podcast Dr. Christina Burch from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, talks about the evolution of drug resistance in commensal bacteria like S. aureus. April 2008.

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• Understanding Evolution

[greenhornet123]

Evolution is crap get this stupid video out of here fools

[adrianmolm715]

@MrMZaccone Same with diesel being bad/non-efficient, than there was car that came out the- Diesel Hybrid , watch “ GreenCar.com-June09 : Diesel Hybrid ” on youtube, same with others non –movies that gets our head full of nonsense watch “TV On The Radio - Repetition - live Music Box Hollywood, May 11, 2011 ” on youtube start at 3:00- repetion (movies) hinting some wrong facts..look at true history

[ilinaeternity]

@codyjt5150 If evolution has not been proved, gravity doesn't exist. Say, have you ever heard of penicillin resistant bacteria? Here's how it worked: they were killed off by Penicillin, and later evolved to be resistant to that. That's evolution that human's witnessed (not that evolution isn't going on all around us). Now don't tell me God purposely made the bacteria Penicillin resistant. If that's what you'll say, then it is impossible to have a rational argument with you.

[marauderfh]

@codyjt5150 Neither is gravity.

[codyjt5150]

@MrMZaccone it's not even proved and it never will be. so it's not a fact

[MrMZaccone]

@codyjt5150 Evolution is not only one of the best supported theories in all of science, it is an observed and observable fact.

[codyjt5150]

evolution is a bunch of bullshit.

[ytsfrez]

Excellent and thorough; yet in a simple to understand narrative. Thank you for posting.

[kylehere123]

this deserves more views.