As well as soot and exhaust fumes city air could be filling our lungs with antibiotic resistant genes, a study has found.
Some two million people in the US are thought to become infected with drug-resistant bacteria every year, and they could be inhaling them from the air.
The genes which cause bacteria to become immune to medication – antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) – are able to move between different bacteria and also from bacteria into the environment, experts say.
And research by the American Chemical Society revealed scientists have found the airborne genes in farms and parks in America.
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3 comments:
Did you think that they just disappear? It's not just bacteria, but mutated viruses and spores that float around looking for a good place to grow.
What go you think is coming out of those giant chicken house vent fans spewing right onto the roads we drive every day? These are not local small farmers. It’s high polluting industry.
9:10, that`s why when i`m approaching a tractor trailer carrying chickens in cages on the road, i roll up my windows or turn off the A/C then speed past it as fast as i can. I don`t want to be breathing all those chicken feathers, chicken feces and chicken urine that is flying out of those cages and all over the road and in the air.
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