Bacteria on Ants Could Help Create New Drugs

Investigators are calling it the most promising lead to new antibiotics in about 30 years.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have found a bacteria coating on ants may be just what they need to create the new drugs.

If they can perfect it, it could help patients who have infections that current antibiotics on the market cannot treat effectively.

"If we look down the street at the hospital I work at, we have a patient everyday with an infection which we do not have an antibiotic, an effective antibiotic to treat them," said Dr. David Andes, with the University of Wisconsin.

Doctors hope to have something developed in the next few years.