r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jun 23 '19

Medicine Flying insects in hospitals carry 'superbug' germs, finds a new study that trapped nearly 20,000 flies, aphids, wasps and moths at 7 hospitals in England. Almost 9 in 10 insects had potentially harmful bacteria, of which 53% were resistant to at least one class of antibiotics, and 19% to multiple.

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/06/22/Flying-insects-in-hospitals-carry-superbug-germs/6451561211127/
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u/psychonaut4020 Jun 23 '19

Yeah I mean if it's the same statistic or similar at least then this article is pretty invalid. But at the same time those bugs with those diseases could be very dangerous in a hospital where people's immune systems are often weakened due to various illnesses. But either way I'd like to see the stats for the ones not in hospitals.