Posted on 01/11/2022 1:08:58 PM PST by zeestephen
"Our study suggests that it wasn't the use of penicillin that drove the initial emergence of MRSA, it was a natural biological process. We think MRSA evolved in a battle for survival on the skin of hedgehogs, and subsequently spread to livestock and humans through direct contact."
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convince me it was not engineered by military.
Who has been bringing hedgehogs into hospitals.
This must STOP!!!
Only during visiting hours
Isn’t there something similar between armadillos and leprosy? (Sorry, I can’t look it up now because cooking.)
“MRSA evolved in a battle for survival on the skin of hedgehogs”
So, don’t lick a Hedgehog.
“MRSA evolved in a battle for survival on the skin of hedgehogs”
so.. Superbug.
Besides humans, armadillos are the only known animal to harbor the leprosy bacteria.
Believe it or not, scientists now believe that humans infected armadillos with leprosy in the last 1,000 years.
Humans do catch it now from armadillos, but apparently the disease is very easy cure, as long as it is detected in the early stages.
Comfort hedgehogs...
Sonic hedgehog!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember playing Sonic way back in the day. Good times.
I never got MRSA playing...
The Revenge of Spiny Norman!
Blame Sonic.😏
That’s amazing about the MRSA infection from hedgehogs, though. Good grief. What an astonishing world we live in.
I got a couple of Sonic the Hedgehog pins from Sega. I was a FedEx dude back in the day, and Sega was just one of the businesses on my route. I think they had a basket of them sitting on their reception desk.
Yes, this was over 30 years ago.
Still have ‘em?
I think I still have one of them somewhere. Should it go up on eBay?
Keep it for nostalgia.
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