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Invasion Of The Superbugs Analysis

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In the article Invasion of the Superbugs by Alessandra Potenza she warns you of a dangerous new bacterial disease that is resistant to antibiotics and what this could mean for the future. What are these superbugs? They are an antibiotic resistant bacterial disease. This was caused the over and misuse of antibiotics. These superbugs are actually very dangerous, one boy Joseph Paz received this disease and got a sharp pain in his right leg. Since it was of course a bacterial disease they assigned antibiotics which failed to cure this disease and it spread to his heart and his condition was critical. In conclusion this new kind of superbug disease is very dangerous and this antibiotic resistant bacteria is simply an evolution of regular bacteria

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