Professor Dame Sally Davies' second annual report as Chief Medical Officer doesn't disappoint.
According to a report on the BBC News website:
The danger posed by growing resistance to antibiotics should be ranked along with terrorism on a list of threats to the nation, the government's chief medical officer for England has said.
Ranked alongside "terrorism"?
Dame Sally's latest pronouncement (following her recent comments about plain packaging) also includes the words "ticking time bomb" (nice alliteration) and, according to Five Live yesterday, "apocalyptic".
Given this degree of scaremongering one has to ask whether the Chief Medical Officer would be better suited as a sub-editor working for The Sun or Daily Mail.
Alternatively she should apply for a job in PR. She certainly knows how to grab a headline.