Originally Posted By: Jeff_McCann
We may be entering an age akin that our great-grandparents knew, where a small cut could take your life...

We're already there. Recently, I was talking to a lot more of the 65+ year old crowd than I normally do, asking how so-and-so was doing, and I was amazed by how many of these folks had contracted an infection during a surgical procedure (bypass, hip replacement, angioplasty, etc.) and the surgery went fine but they died from the infection because it was antibiotic-resistant. Shocked me how common it seemed just from this small group of people.