Fortunately, in the case of e coli especially, UV light will kill it, even the few strains resistant to light.

E coli is useful as well as lethal, depends on the strain. We've spliced DNA into some of it in order to manufacture human analog insulin for diabetics. Other strains live in our gut and outcompete organisms like Clostridium dificile while digesting foodstuffs we can't ordinarily digest. We'd die without E. coli.

It just doesn't belong in our bladders or our bloodstreams. That's when it turns really ugly.

We are sorely lacking in the new antibiotic development arena because big pharma won't invest in it, not enough profit for them. The antibiotics we have are decades old (new ones are usually cousins of older ones), and have been misused and overly-used.

It's only a matter of time until bacteria like CRE and MRSA become resistant to every antibiotic in our arsenal.

infections kill a lot of folks
think its what got my mom....she had pneumonia was in the hospital and was doing ok. but then she got c dif
and fighting that took what ever reserves she had and drained her down to nothing....

Sorry about your mom.

Republican congress wastes time and money on things like monitoring who is in the bathroom.

IMO