In the future fighting Bacteria will become much more difficult. Just like I mentioned in the article from Charles Rock with bacteria gaining resistance to triclosan we will have to find substituted in the future. It is impossible to completely drop the rate at which the world uses antibacterials but in the future we may have to find ways to use newer products less extremely. In doing so those newer products will fight off bacteria for a longer time, than triclosan did. Overall a good way to put it is that when you read a germ-X box or something and it says kills 99.9 percent of all germs, overtime that number is going to continue to drop little by little.

Charles O. Rock Ph.D. Of Journal of Biochemistry reported in a paper published in September that it was possible for E. coli bacteria to develop a resistance to triclosan. Rock showed that triclosan inhibited an enzyme in fatty acid biosynthesis produced by a gene called fabI, and that mutations in the fabI gene caused resistance to triclosan. Basically doing what any other living organism would do the Ecoli Bacteria are trying to find ways to live just like many other bacteria will follow. "The ability of E. coli to acquire genetic resistance to triclosan and related compounds through mutations in the fabI gene suggests that the widespread use of this drug will lead to the appearance of resistant organisms that will eventually compromise the usefulness of triclosan, and other antibacterials that interact with the same target," Rock said.

Here's the problem!!!!!!!! The place we like to call home may soon become a safe haven for super strains of bacteria or viruses. What is cuing this is the use of popular antibacterial products such as soaps and body washes introduces an antibacterial compound called triclosan into the environment. Triclosan interacts with bacteria -- and, as is their nature, the bacteria develop resistance to the compound. The accumulation of triclosan in the environment could lead to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, Rock said. As a result, the very antibacterial products designed to kill the bacteria would become ineffective. This possibly meaning that there maybe will be more colds, or at a more extreme level an epidemic.