A few weeks back we discovered that we could be about to run out of effective antibiotics (I think it was on the BBC news). Well, how about this?
Cockroaches Have Super Antibiotics in Their Brains; We Must Steal Them | 80beats | Discover Magazine: From the inheritors of the world after the fall of civilisation, to the possible saviours of medical treatment.
"The brains of these insects carry some serious antibiotics—strong enough to slaughter bacteria that have evolved resistance to the hospital antibiotics we use."
However, the development time may be a good while. It could be a race between resistance in bacteria and development of new a-b's.
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