Johns Hopkins investigating potential source of resistant pathogens: US farms

LogicHoleFlaw · on Aug 19, 2009

one microbe can acquire genetic material from another microbe, even a microbe of a much different type, then incorporate it in its own genome and thus acquire resistance to an antibiotic it has not yet even encountered. It's as if bacteria are capable of downloading resistance from a gene database.

I think an analogy to BitTorrent is more precise. And scarier.

dan_the_welder · on Aug 19, 2009

According to the movie Food Inc. the nasty e coli in meat problem is from feed lots. It's a new acid resistant strain is harder to kill.

ams6110 · on Aug 20, 2009

e coli in any form of meat is from contamination of the meat with fecal matter in the butchering process, is it not?

I assume cooking still kills all strains...