IT HAPPENS AT WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
Tests at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China revealed antibiotic-resistant bacteria were not only escaping purification but also breeding and spreading their dangerous cargo.
Joint research by scientists from Rice, Nankai and Tianjin universities found "superbugs" carrying New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1), a multidrug-resistant gene first identified in India in 2010, in wastewater disinfected by chlorination.
They are everywhere, in every country.
They are growing by eating garbage, and no antibiotic can kill them. They are the perfect survivors.
Worse. They are transferring their antibiotic resistant genes to other less harmful bacteria.
"It turns out that they transfer these genetic determinants for antibiotic resistance to indigenous bacteria in the environment, so they are not only proliferating within the wastewater treatment plant, they're also propagating and dispersing antibiotic resistance," said a scientist.
Read more - http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Superbugs_found_breeding_in_sewage_plants_999.html
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