Does God Love Viruses & Superbugs More than He Loves Us?

The World Health Organization just put out an urgent bulletin according to a warning in USA Today:

 Doctors in the United States, including those at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have used similarly strong words of late about so-called "superbugs" and "nightmare bacteria." They applauded WHO for sounding the alarm on a problem seen every day in U.S. hospitals and doctors' offices.

So what exactly are these superbugs? In the sixty years since Dr. Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin, germs are evolving and becoming resistant to new antibiotics almost as quickly as medical researchers are putting them on the market.  This acceleration in germ resistance is being caused by the overuse of antibiotics being prescribed by doctors to their patients and being used by animals breeders.

The situation at the New Orleans Children's Hospital has become a more immediate nightmare.  It was recently learned that five children died of antibiotic-resistant flesh-eating bacteria spread on the improperly disposed bed linen.  While improved sanitation has been able to control this contagion, hospitals are becoming some of the most dangerous pieces of real estate if you would rather not have a superbug for a neighbor.   


And that brings me back to God, pandemics and us.  Is the last one standing the one whom God loves best?  There is of course one other possibility. If we lose this battle with the superbugs, it might only be God's sardonic way of punishing us for not believing in evolution.