The greatest threat to humanity isn't terrorism, it's superbugs

WHILE the greatest concern of the world these days is the spread of terrorism, an even greater threat to humanity is invisible.

So-called superbugs are threatening to unleash a global epidemics of untreatable infections, after breaching the last line of antibiotic defences.

Chinese researchers say they have identified a gene that enables infectious bacteria, such as E.coli, to become untreatable.