Enough heat kills everything, except prions, which aren't alive anyway. Everything else kills almost everything. Note that the involved bug did not cause an infection, and did what it did in a severely immune-compromised child. I will never use my fak on an immune-compromised patient, but I am ditching the betadine and alcohol preps, and the attendant false sense of security. I will treat wounds with copious irrigation with soap and water and with humility. Micro-organisms are better at surviving than we are at destroying them. The bugs are developing increasing resistance to our antibiotics, and big pharma has all but ceased antibiotic research cause there is more money in developing drugs for hair-loss, erectile dysfunction, and depression. Given Art's thread about graft and corruption in exploiting BP's response to the oil spill, I believe that the bacteria have taken the moral high ground.