Reply #53: Well technically its not evolving, its a mutation.

[muryan]

There's a subtle difference when using those two words in this context. Evolution does not happen instantaneously, which is what happens when a pathogen mutates. This all could be avoided if we had put more research into bacterial phages when we realized that antibiotics would not work forever. The russians hardly use antibiotics and as a result they have very few resistant strains of disease, one of the few things they got right.