Article: A bug's life for health lab waging war on diseases; Here in Birmingham, right under our noses, a war is being waged on behalf of the entire human race. Health Correspondent Sophie Blakemore dons a white coat and armed with nothing more than a notepad and pen, enters one of the most hostile environments known to man. Let battle commence.(News)

Byline: Sophie Blakemore

I'm surrounded. Everywhere I look they've got me cornered and there is nowhere to run.

Like sirens luring a sailor to a watery end, their bright, acid colours dance around me, cajoling and tempting -come a little closer, just one touch . . .

But this tantalising artist's palate of the science laboratory is evidence that potentially-deadly bacteria are taking over the agar plates they inhabit.

Legionella, MRSA -otherwise known as the hospital superbug -and TB are just some of the bugs being cultured at the Health ...

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