"As drug-resistant infections become an increasingly serious threat worldwide, new research show the problem may be spreading right under our feet. A new study in the journal Science shows that disease-causing germs and harmless bacteria in the soil are exchanging genes that make them resistant to antibiotics -- a finding that may have implications for the widespread use of antibiotics in livestock."

 
"Antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria -- the kind that make people sick -- is one of the most serious problems in medicine today."

Steve Baragona reports for Voice of America August 30, 2012. [2]