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This week's amusing/scary Science News note:
A study performed here at Kansas State determined that when a fast food restaurant was set up within a fly's flight of agribusinesses like poultry farms, the antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that develop on the farms (and normally stay there) spread to the flies that hang out at the eateries.
Personal connection: when I was at my dealership this weekend for an oil change, I noticed it was swarming with flies. I was informed that a poultry farm abuts on the dealership. And that a McDonald's was being built next door.
I don't generally eat at McD's, but I think I'll be taking special care to not eat at that one.
A study performed here at Kansas State determined that when a fast food restaurant was set up within a fly's flight of agribusinesses like poultry farms, the antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that develop on the farms (and normally stay there) spread to the flies that hang out at the eateries.
Personal connection: when I was at my dealership this weekend for an oil change, I noticed it was swarming with flies. I was informed that a poultry farm abuts on the dealership. And that a McDonald's was being built next door.
I don't generally eat at McD's, but I think I'll be taking special care to not eat at that one.
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