Bacteria super-evolving

[Eastoff]

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/hea...ions-help-bacteria-beat-immune-systems-83848/

Researchers somehow found two infected Australian volunteers—both naturally infected with H. pylori—who were willing to be treated with potent antibiotic cocktails, then re-infected by drinking beef broth tainted with strains of the bacteria that were harvested from their own bodies prior to the antibiotic treatment. All the while, the volunteers were subjected to repeated endoscopies that sampled bacteria and checked for inflammation.

During an initial evolutionary burst following a new infection, the bacterial DNA was found to mutate at 40 to 50 times the average rate at which it mutated during the subsequent chronic infection. All of the bacterial DNA mutated quickly during this evolutionary burst, but the changes manifested most prominently in the cell’s outer membrane proteins, helping them avoid detection by human defense cells.

Let's hope Yahweh can save us.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

There's never been a better time to stop eating altogether.