Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (V.R.S.A.) isn't resistant to all forms of antibiotics like Rogers states, but it is resistant to most types. V.R.S.A. is a close, more aggressive cousin, to the more commonly known Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M.R.S.A.). Staff infections were typically treated with penicillin-class antibiotics, and very specific penicillin derivatives were created to treat staff infections, the two most commonly used are methicillin and oxacillin which were developed around 1960, though staff infections had been treated with penicillin since the early 1900's. After decades of being exposed to antibiotics like penicillin and methicillin the staphylococcus aureus bacterium began to mutate and become resistant to these types of antibiotics, hence this new strain was called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It was discovered around 1970 that the antibiotic vancomycin, which has a different mechanism of action than methicillin, was effective at treating M.R.S.A. infections and proved to be a reliable treatment option for a number of years. However around 1990 doctors started seeing a new strain of staff that was becoming resistant to vancomycin, hence it was termed Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. V.R.S.A. is a very difficult infection to treat, but in recent years doctors have found success in treating it with newer generation antibiotics like daptomycin, linezolid, telavancin, ceftaroline and quinupristin-dalfopristin, though it's only a matter of time before the staff bacterium starts to adapt to these as well. If people do not stop overusing antibiotics, especially products like antibacterial soap and hand sanitizer (plain alcohol sanitizer is far more effective) and using antibiotics to treat viral infections like the cold (which is pointless and futile) it is only a matter of time before antibiotics become totally useless.