Submitted by wr-104:
A Wall Street Journal map showing this: it wasn’t behind a paywall for me, so that was good.
Mapping the Bacteria in New York’s Subways
Wall Street Journal (from 2/5/2015)
Every day, New York City’s 5.5 million commuters seed the city subways with bacteria from the food they eat, the pets or plants they keep, and their shoes, sneezes and unwashed hands.
For the first time, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College sampled DNA in New York City’s 466 open subway stations. They found genetic material from 15,152 different species, most of them harmless or unidentified. Almost half the DNA belonged to bacteria. No two subway stations were exactly the same, and the research continues.
So far, the scientists have identified 67 bacteria species associated with disease and infections.
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As far as Trios Made In Hell, I’m torn. Do I go with Sepsis/Staph Infections/Sunscreen, or Swiss Cheese/Tetanus/Toxic Cleanup? Or maybe Meningitis/Mozzarella Cheese/Oil Cleanup? One thing jumps out: New York has a cheese problem.
Not sure I’m reading what you’re reading, but I’m intrigued:
Saturday’s Straight Line should be “Trios Made In Hell.”
Study up, everyone. This will be one-third of your grade.
So have they found a few new species so we can make Murder Hornets extinct and call it even?
“Mmmmmm. . . . Murder Hornets . . . A delicacy on my planet. . . .
I mean, this planet.
Nom nom nom.”
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