Freelance writer and editor
Study suggests the dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as MRSA first evolved naturally.
As soon as humans started using antibiotics to fight bacterial infections, the bacteria started evolving ways to fight back. But new research shows that one so-called “superbug” resistant to important front-line antibiotics has been lurking in hedgehogs for more than 200 years, long before we even started to use the drugs. Read more in Inside Science.