The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has announced the first confirmed case of staphylococcus aureus -- cause of some of the most common and troublesome infections to afflict man -- becoming resistant to the antibiotic arsenal’s main weapon.
Vancomycin-resistant staph aureus -- known in the medical world as VRSA -- was found last month in a Michigan man.
Medical experts have long described this as the nightmare scenario of antibiotic resistance.
"The genie is out of the bottle," Dr. Donald Low, microbiologist-in-chief at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, said of the confirmation. "It’s ominous."