Texas cattle farms identified as new source of airborne super-bacteria

http://www.natureworldreport.com/2015/04/02/texas-cattle-farms-identified-as-new-source-of-airborne-super-bacteria/



Super-bacteria, or bacteria resistant to traditional antibiotics, is scary enough - and the increased use of antibacterial agents only makes them stronger. The only way they could be more threatening is if they were airborne, capable of spreading far and fast. Unfortunately, that's exactly what researchers from Texas Tech University found in examining dust that originates in the cattle farms of the Texas panhandle.

"The 'aha' moment came when we saw how much more prevalent resistant sequences were downwind than upwind," said study co-author Greg Mayer, a molecular biologist at Texas Tech. "It was not just higher in some of them – it was 4,000 percent more. It made me not want to breathe."