Well fuck. Add another contender to the apocalypse bingo, why not.
Bacteria Frozen in Ancient Underground Ice Cave Found to be Resistant Against 10 Modern Antibiotics
Submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to science@mander.xyz
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It didn’t answer the most important question which is, Are they pathogenic?
dgdft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It did.
Psychrobacter SC65A.3 is a strain of the genus Psychrobacter, which are bacteria adapted to cold environments. Some species can cause infections in humans or animals.
If it’s not immediately obvious: The intended takeaway is that this particular strain probably isn’t pathogenic itself, but it’s completely plausible that such resistance can spread via HGT to pathogenic species, within the genus or not.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That didn’t answer whether these particular bacteria are pathogenic.
certified_expert@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It comes from a Cave at the northwest of Romania. So it may as well be a bacteria that turns you into a vampire or something…
certified_expert@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are a huge number of bacteria that do absolutely nothing to humans.
Is this one of them?
assembly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe we just refreeze it and keep that a mystery. What part of 2026 has anyone thinking we’re going to have any kind of good luck this year? This ain’t the year to shoot your shot.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
28 days later…
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
discocactus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honey! New pandemic just dropped!!
uberdroog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Feed it to RFK Jr.
msage@programming.dev 2 months ago
Don’t.
There are two scenarios:
sleepmode@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought the bear worm found nothing to eat so it died.