1.   Authors say many other reasons can account for disease spread, including increase human travel and resistant bugs.

2.   Concern has been growing that routine use of the drugs fosters the emergence of resistant bugs that can be transmitted to consumers.

3.   For already, in clinical trials, bugs resistant to Synercid have already appeared.

4.   An experimental French drug called Synercid could prove to be an effective new antibiotic against the resistant bug.

5.   New Caledonia is remote from most other coffee growing areas, making direct spread of the resistant bug less likely.

6.   The highly resistant bug is impervious to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfonamides and tetracycline.

7.   Zyvox is likely to be reserved for particularly ill patients, especially those with bugs resistant to older drugs.