It's just a bit like saying that compost contains compost or poo contains poo
It doesn't really add anything to the article. Dried human flesh will contain bacteria, some of that bacteria could be considered "super" if it needs stronger than normal drugs or for longer to kill it. If you tested your hands after your daily commute to work, maybe across London on the tube, you may find a similar cross-section of bacteria on them. Scary, huh? (Not really).
If they want to use a quote or statement like that, perhaps analysing it and naming the actual bacteria might be better. We might otherwise be talking about a completely harmless bacteria that just happens to be drug resistant.
The bottom line is that these journalists don't give you facts, only a load of hand waving hysteria. It's probably not deliberate, they may only understand the "layman"'s version, but we read these things expecting that they know more than us. Some science reporters do, but often these are not written by science reporters, and are less sciency and a lot more emotional as a result.
The main subject... well, what a few people sell to the terminally gullible really doesn't interest me, even if it is made from dead foetus. Like you say, these people need to man up and not worry about getting a little tummy ache ;-)
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:24, Share, Reply)