A creepy solution: Could ants tackle the 'antibiotic apocalypse'? I was born in India and, as a young child, I developed a serious gut infection that would have killed me if it hadn't been for antibiotics.
These days a young child in India, with the same condition, would be far more vulnerable because of the huge and rapid rise in antibiotic resistance in that part of the world.
The problem is not, of course, confined to India. It's estimated that antibiotic-resistant infections currently kill at least 700,000 people a year.
This is projected to rise to 10 million by 2050. What is particularly worrying is that as well as the emergence of antibiotic resistance and the threat it poses - there have been no new classes of antibiotics released in the past 30 years. BBC News
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