Bacteria are outsmarting our wonder drugs. A New York Times videos.
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“Pooping on that 12 hour flight may be a public health service. Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark are siphoning off the sludge from international airline flights and using it to study the spread of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
In a study in Scientific Reports, they break down their analysis of 18 different airplanes that arrived in Copenhagen from nine different cities around the world, looking for the presence of things like Salmonella and Clostridium difficile.
The team found that Salmonella was more prevalent in poop arriving from Southeast Asia, while the sludge from planes arriving from North America was more likely to contain C. difficile (a bacteria that causes a nasty drug-resistant infection). Planes arriving from Asia had higher rates of DNA from drug-resistant bacteria strains overall.”
— “Pooping on Airplanes Could Contribute to Public Health Research,” Shaunacy Ferro, Mental Floss
Space aliens invade Earth, riding on meteorites! They’re bugs! Microscopic bugs!
Or … maybe not:
“Has Evidence for Alien Life Been Found?” Ian O’Neill, Discovery News
“Bacteria….FROM OUTER SPACE,” Science vs. Pseudoscience
“Has life been found in a meteorite?” Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy
“NASA Scientist Says He Sees Alien Fossils in Meteorite,” Dan Satterfield, AGU Blogosphere
“Bugs From Space? Forget It,” Richard A. Kerr, ScienceInsider
“Aliens Riding Meteorites: Arsenic Redux or Something New?” David Dobbs, Neuron Culture
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