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Biologists Find Drug-Resistant Bacteria On BART Seats
Yahoo News ^ | 03/07/11 | Yahoo News

Posted on 03/08/2011 8:31:28 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

SAN FRANCISCO -- The seats of some well used methods of public transportation have been analyzed by a biologist and the results might keep commuters on their feet. A supervisor with San Francisco State University's biology lab recently tested the bacterial content of a random BART seat and a Muni seat. The Bay Citizen commissioned the study. On Muni's plastic seats she found two forms of harmless bacteria, and after using an alcohol wipe on the seat no bacteria was detected. But the cloth seats on BART told an entirely different story: tests of the seats on BART revealed fecal and skin borne bacteria that were also resistant to antibiotics. The test also found at least nine different strains of bacteria and several types of mold on the seat.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: bacteria; bart; bay; gay; poopy; sf
Gaak!.....They need showers on BART trains now? No one takes a shower in Frisco anyway so this should be no surprise....

Just a side bar...What about cloth airline seats?

1 posted on 03/08/2011 8:31:31 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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2 posted on 03/08/2011 8:33:00 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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3 posted on 03/08/2011 8:34:05 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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I am never surprised at what is found in SF...


4 posted on 03/08/2011 8:35:21 AM PST by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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Gotta love that public transit


5 posted on 03/08/2011 8:35:23 AM PST by clamper1797 (Pray for Obama ... Psalms 109:8)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

A little leakage from the local gays perhaps?


6 posted on 03/08/2011 8:35:58 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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They need to post signs when entering S.F.....”Warning!, Entering Toxic Chemical Zone, Enter at your own risk!


7 posted on 03/08/2011 8:39:09 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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“A little leakage from the local gays perhaps?”

We have winner.


8 posted on 03/08/2011 8:41:54 AM PST by headstamp 2
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HOW does this fecal matter get all over the place, anway??? Geeez!


9 posted on 03/08/2011 8:43:03 AM PST by jackibutterfly
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HOW does this fecal matter get all over the place, anway??? Geeez!

for starters, I’m guessing some people are changing their shorts monthly if at all....


10 posted on 03/08/2011 8:47:31 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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probably from the dry “bath” houses!


11 posted on 03/08/2011 8:48:26 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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Maybe they can’t afford to buy shorts...this is getting worse!


12 posted on 03/08/2011 8:49:09 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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S.F. needs a free shorts program....Gaak!...Someone to hand out underwear with the BART ticket.


13 posted on 03/08/2011 8:51:19 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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The real surprise is what drugs the bacteria are resistant to.

Crack, meth, heroin, oxycontin, Nyquil, Thunderbird, ...

14 posted on 03/08/2011 8:53:10 AM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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Okay, suddenly I'm not so hungry for breakfast after all.
15 posted on 03/08/2011 9:08:44 AM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: headstamp 2; Farmer Dean
Illegal aliens too.

What I'd like to see, that is, if I still watched it, would be the
Mythbusters do a piece on SF's public transportation
system's seats, handholds, floors, etc.

I've seen them do bacteria counts on food dropped on the floor, bathroom samples, [alleged] rat urination on soda cans, etc.

Riding the various lines of BART various times during the day
should give a great statistical sampling to ID what and where
the dirtiest things are that pose a potential health hazard.

16 posted on 03/08/2011 9:13:44 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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Those boys on Mythbusters will need their haz-mat suits for that show.


17 posted on 03/08/2011 9:21:44 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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Time to rename it to BARF. Truth in advertising....


18 posted on 03/08/2011 10:19:48 AM PST by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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Probably how liberalism is spread through SF. By anal drainage. SO this shows that liberals are infecting others who have their brains in their a$$es.


19 posted on 03/08/2011 10:31:56 AM PST by RickB444 (This is NOT my president.)
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