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The inappropriate use of antibiotics in both the human and veterinary arenas has created a worldwide cause for alarm with respect to multi-drug resistant organisms. Research indicates that over 50% of hospital administered antibiotics are unnecessary. In addition, physicians prescribe commonly used antibiotics for a number of viral illnesses including the common cold, of which these antibiotics do not treat. This may be partly due to patients expectations of receiving a prescription after seeing their doctor. In the field of veterinary medicine, the exposure of food producing animals to multiple antibiotics has also led to the emergence of resistant organisms. While all of the characters in this novel are fictitious, the potential for a ‘super bacteria’ arising from such non- discretionary use of anti-microbial agents may not be in the far too distant future. In fact, a Transatlantic Task Force On Antibacterial Resistance has been established between the countries of the United States and Great Britain to address this worldwide concern.