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Rivers Becoming 'Reservoirs of Disease'
Friday July 12, 2024. 09:22 PM , from Slashdot
![]() 'Organisms that are currently low risk are being mixed with pathogenic organisms from sewage,' he said. 'We're needlessly adding pathogenic and virulence genes to bacteria found in the environment, and that could be creating a reservoir of disease.' The team has been working closely with citizen scientists from the Deben Climate Centre, who have been taking water samples for two years. They have also been working with scientists at the government's CEFAS laboratories, who have helped identify the new strains that are being screened for their resistance to six of the most commonly-used antibiotics. The River Deben rises in Debenham, Suffolk, before flowing through Woodbridge and down to the North Sea. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/07/12/1745254/rivers-becoming-reservoirs-of-disease?utm_source...
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