Untreated sewage driving ‘superbug’ spread in urban water [Bangladesh]

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2021/07/16/untreated-sewage-driving-superbug-spread-in-urban-water ^ | 7/16/2021 | Reaz Ahmad

[Right Wing Vegan]

Researchers have identified a high-level presence of antibiotic resistance genes in urban surface water samples in Bangladesh and made an urgent call for immediate measures to halt the spread of the "superbugs."

“The rivers and lakes of Dhaka are surrounded by highly-populated slums in which human waste is directly released into the water. The presence of human gut bacteria links to high levels of antibiotic resistance genes, suggesting that such contamination is driving the presence of these ‘superbugs’ in surface water,” a University of Birmingham statement issued on Friday quoted the research paper’s lead author Willem van Schaik as saying.

Superbugs are strains of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi that are resistant to most of the antibiotics and other medications commonly used to treat the infections they cause.

Schaik, who teaches microbiology at the University of Birmingham in UK, is member of an eight-strong research team comprising four members each from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and the Institute of Microbiology and Infection of the University of Birmingham.

Their research findings from samples collected from 24 sites of Bangladesh’s three districts — Dhaka, Mymensingh and Shariatpur— was published in mSystems, a scientific journal of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) on July 13 under the title "Metagenome-wide analysis of rural and urban surface waters and sediments in Bangladesh identifies human waste as a driver of antibiotic resistance."

Researchers suspect that that the release of untreated sewage is a driver for the spread of environmental antibiotic resistance genes in Bangladesh, particularly in highly urbanized settings. They, however, called for further research to quantify the drivers of antibiotic resistance in surface waters in Bangladesh.

[Mariner]

It is a failed state that cannot ensure basic sanitary handling of sewage.

And such is endemic in South Asia and Africa, some of Central America and much of China.

2/3rds of the world, easy.

[Mariner]

“Another country that smells like ass.”

I’ve never been there but I can’t imagine a country smelling worse than Pakistan.

You can smell Karachi from 60 miles out at sea, and a mere whiff will make almost all Americans puke.

[Hulka]

“Go outside of a few modern cities and India is giant toxic waste environment, not to mention their smog in the cities. “

So true.

India is a huge turd world environment. Gawd awful.

Even in the states, they have questionable unhealthy activities and they insist on wearing that stinky perfume and bathe in curry.

Culturally, perfume is used to cover-up their BO because fresh water is rare so no regular bathing.

Curry smell permeates everything in a home; the walls, ventilation, the paint, everything to the point the smell can’t be removed without breaking the bank or tearing down dry-wall and steam cleaning everything, and carpets removed and replaced.

I’ve done enough house-hunting and if I catch a whiff of curry or that gawd-awful oily perfume smell, I don’t go beyond the front door.

Yuck.

[Right Wing Vegan]

And Mexico.

Well, mexican neighborhood there... even though a US town.