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Monday, January 9, 2012

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria From Fukushima?

Well, at least he's not proposing Godzilla.  The answer is no.  Bacteria enjoy mutations a' plenty.  Fukushima isn't going to impact that significantly.  The antibiotic resistance originates when those bacteria exposed to an antibiotic survive and proliferate, whereas the non-mutants die.  There may be plenty of antibiotic bacteria in the environment, but we're not aware of them until we expose them to antibiotics.  Similarly, there are plenty of radiation sources, but there's no evidence that antibiotic resistant bacteria proliferate from around them.

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