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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

Posted on 07/17/2021 11:45:24 AM PDT by 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."

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“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.

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1 posted on 07/17/2021 11:45:24 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Is this the first time they ever checked Urban Water ?


2 posted on 07/17/2021 11:47:58 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Right Wing Vegan

You would think folks in Bangladesh would have bullet-proof immune systems with everything they have to deal with over there.


3 posted on 07/17/2021 11:49:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I’m trying to reconcile the science of “Bangladesh water bad” with articles stating “fecal transplants good.”


4 posted on 07/17/2021 11:49:41 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Right Wing Vegan
an urgent call for immediate measures to halt the spread of the "superbugs."


5 posted on 07/17/2021 11:51:18 AM PDT by Pollard
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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.

Beef, sheep and meat goat farmers know all about those. dewormer resistant worms aka parasites. Have to do integrated parasite control and treat only the animals needed to help prevent resistant parasites by overuse of dewormers.

6 posted on 07/17/2021 11:54:25 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The fear-mining industry is really booming these days!


7 posted on 07/17/2021 11:55:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
"International Centre of Diarrhoel Disease Research"

The United States of America, land of the solid stool.

8 posted on 07/17/2021 12:01:59 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Governments are so full of Sh!t these days they’re the source of all Super bugs


9 posted on 07/17/2021 12:03:52 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dfwgator
bullet-proof immune systems

They probably do. Many years ago I rented a room in a house full of people from Indonesia. They would leave fish loosely covered with plastic wrap, and half consumed bottles of orange juice on a table without bothering to refrigerate it. The roaches streamed under the gaps in the saran wrap and over the fish like stop motion animation. The next day they would resume eating, without cooking and finish the orange juice. As far as I know this regular unsanitary practice never made them ill.

10 posted on 07/17/2021 12:05:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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Go outside of a few modern cities and India is giant toxic waste environment, not to mention their smog in the cities. You can barely see a mile - same with the big cities of China. Yet, our politicians preach to us how America should clean up its pollution and give billions (trillions?) to 3rd world countries who can't afford to clean up. Pfft!

I sometimes wish the indoctrinated Millinials and GenX types could experience Los Angeles on smog day alerts when I was growing up. The environweenies still complain about air, water, land pollution. They have no idea how well the US cleaned up. I do having lived it.

11 posted on 07/17/2021 12:06:58 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021.)
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I still believe that explains why over here we seem to suffer from a lot of allergies, immune systems are never allowed to fully develop in childhood. We’re supposed to play in dirt.


12 posted on 07/17/2021 12:07:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Looks like Hillary Clinton’s brains.


13 posted on 07/17/2021 12:07:59 PM PDT by Track9 (Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
fear-mining

Probably.

14 posted on 07/17/2021 12:10:10 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Pollard
"Have to do integrated parasite control and treat only the animals needed to help prevent resistant parasites by overuse of dewormers."

The same has happened with antibiotics from over-prescribing them for every little cold or runny nose. I wonder if that is still the procedure with so many doctors and ER's, or have they wised up since?

15 posted on 07/17/2021 12:11:40 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021.)
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I still believe that explains why over here we seem to suffer from a lot of allergies, immune systems are never allowed to fully develop in childhood. We’re supposed to play in dirt.

Could be. Wouldn't want to go the extreme of those Indonesian folks though lolz. Playing in dirt as kids though, that might be the moderate approach.

16 posted on 07/17/2021 12:13:30 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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Another country that smells like ass.


17 posted on 07/17/2021 12:14:09 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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But I remember seeing so many parents forcing their newborns to live in a virtual “plastic bubble” growing up.


18 posted on 07/17/2021 12:15:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Another country that smells like ass.



Eric Cartman : Oh my God, it smells like ass out here.

Miss Stevens : All right, that does it. Eric Cartman, you respect other cultures this instant.

Eric Cartman : I wasn't saying anything about their culture, I was just saying their city smells like ass.

Miss Stevens : You may think that making fun of third-world countries is funny but let me...

Cartman : I don't think it's funny. This place is overcrowded, smelly and poor. That's not funny, that sucks.

19 posted on 07/17/2021 12:18:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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"Another country that smells like ass."

One of the reasons compelling leftists to import those highly-populated slums to our own neighborhoods here.

20 posted on 07/17/2021 12:18:22 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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