> The last decade has seen the inexorable proliferation of a host of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or bad bugs ... The problem was predictable--"resistance happens," as Karen Bush, an anti-infectives researcher at Johnson and Johnson  puts it -- but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. In 2002, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that at least 90,000 deaths a year in the United States could be attributed to bacterial infections, more than half caused by bugs resistant to at least one commonly used antibiotic.

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The Bacteria Fight Back
Science 18 July 2008:

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