Arctic birds resistant to antibiotic!
Birds in the Arctic tundra carry bacteria resistant to antibiotic, say Swedish scientists.
SWEDISH researchers report that birds captured in Artic tundra are carriers of antibiotics-resistant bacteria. These findings indicate that resistance to antibiotics has spread into nature, which is an alarming scene for future health care. The scientists took samples from 97 birds in northeastern Siberia, northern Alaska, and northern Greenland. These samples were cultivated directly in special laboratories that the researchers had installed onboard the icebreaker Oden and were further analyzed at the microbiological laboratory at the Central Hospital in Växjö, Sweden. The researchers' hypothesis is that immigrating birds have passed through regions in Southeast Asia, where there is a great deal of antibiotics pressure and carried with them the resistant bacteria to the tundra. It's alarming to find that these bacteria exist also among the birds out on the tundra as findings states that birds in the Western world has also proved to be carriers of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, Findings show that resistance to antibiotics is not limited to society and hospitals but is now spreading into the wild. Escalating resistance to antibiotics over the last few years has crystallized into one of the greatest threats to well-functioning health care in the future.
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