Target Practice: 10 Random Germ Bullets

1. Super-sensitive blood test could detect cancers, etc. much earlier

2. Hospital-acquired C-diff deaths

3. Pneumococcus vaccine lowers chance of pneumonia death (!)

4. MRSA-busting "hit squads" target UK hospitals

5. PDT (photodynamic therapy) kills S. mutans & other oral bacteria

6. Calling Michael Crichton! Unknown bacteria found thriving in Columbia wreckage

7. The Six Scariest Germs

8. UK experts' new tactic: talk MRSA to death

9. Afghan acinetobacter infections slow Canadian troops' recovery

10. Cut finger + 72 hours = NC nurse dead from flesh-eating bacteria