I have long felt that the UK was ahead of the US in the fight against MRSA and now the UK is fighting an even deadlier Super Bug outbreak in their hospitals called Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that is related to the bacterium that causes tetanus and botulism. Their government had a plan in effect for tackling MRSA but they say of this one that “They have reacted too late - there should have been a tough approach early on. This technology should have been used a long time ago. We are playing catch up now and a lot of people are dying.” What frightens me the most about this news is that so many of us feel that quote about the C diff relates to the US’s reaction to MRSA. WHAT IF we, too, get hit with the C diff now? I used to dream about writing a Science Fiction novel about an alien bug that attacked humans and shortened our lifespans to 25 years leaving us required to accomplish everything we could by the age twenty five thus recruiting all child geniuses to work on a cure. It gives me shivers now when I think how much ’science fiction’ eventually becomes science and I never even wrote it!! AS we pray for a stop to the spread of CA MRSA and MRSA in our country lets take a moment to pray for those suffering from and working to contain C diff in the UK before it becomes epidemic here.