But it's really, really hard to catch.
Aboard a No. 6 local train in Manhattan, Weill Cornell researcher Christopher Mason patiently rubbed a nylon swab back and forth along a metal handrail, collecting DNA in an effort to identify the bacteria in the New York City subway.
In 18 months of scouring the entire system, he has found germs that can cause bubonic plague uptown, meningitis in midtown, stomach trouble in the financial district and antibiotic-resistant infections throughout the boroughs.
Allowing rats and fleas on the bus becuase PETA idiots demand it
So, are you implying that New York City should stop offering public transit ? That is very illogical. Have you ever been to this city ?
One of the world's largest pathogen exchange programs.
So all our worry the Iranians with their newly acquired Inter Continental Ballistic Missile might target New York, once Obama approves their nuclear warhead program...
is for naught?
They're doing themselves in? That is so perverse.
Anyone else notice that small children will lick and play on a metal handrail.
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Now tell us again why they should not be vaccinated ?
Ages ago I wrote on my old blog that Public Transit is the most efficient vector ever devised for spreading communicable disease.
I never got so many angry comments and hate e-mail from leftists on any other topic.
absolutely James. they are showing their rube stripes.
New York moves 10 million into Manhattan daily and out again at night , there are 5 million that reside there.
a very efficient system all in all , third oldest in the world after London and.......Budapest. also both pretty good systems.
On a recent quarterly appointment at my favourite large outpatient clinic in a major hospital something
new had been added to the mix. The physical/mental health self assessment paper forms in a dozen or so
languages that are supposed to be filled out on every visit (but are for the most part ignored by everyone),
have now been modernized. Two touch screen "communal" tablets are now permanently mounted and
available for use by any of the English speaking common herd. My fingers and touch screens often aren't
very compatible so the lady babysitting this new feature for now was a great help.
But for the most part they don't spread disease, I suspect they help inoculate us from disease. I used to live in big southern Ontario city which will remain nameless and on occasion took public transit. My big complaint about it is that I could get anywhere in the city faster by bike than I could on the TTC. life is too short to take public transit. Everyone is so paranoid about bacteria, but we are healthier now than at any time in human history. Apparently bacteria cells outnumber human cells in your body 10 to one, but because they are smaller they only make up 1 to 2 percent of your mass (googled it). Coming in contact with a few more is not going to hurt you.
Dont let the jackass drive the bus the pigeon has drivers licsens
...and this has likely been the case for decades, yet where are the transit induced outbreaks? Wash your hands once in awhile and you'll be fine.
I rode public transit in Hong Kong many years ago. Very humid so I suspect a great incubator. Still healthy, go figure. Hand washer but that was about it.
Wait a minute I did have a bad case of 'hemmys' in China. Any connection?
absolutely
we are legion
I left Bali in a hurry with Bali-belly,known as the 'shits' and as quickly as possible left town for Hong Kong and was cured with clean toilets, towels, 3 suits, 1 tuxedo, diamond ensamble for my support staff,(wife) and lots of chow mein.
Bubonic plague is endemic to the prairie states of the US, where its host is one or another species of prairie dog. I have read somewhere that the rate of infection for humans is about 10 per year. So if you want to avoid Yersinia pests in the US, head for the canyons and subways of Manhattan.
Yes, I have often pondered this......perhaps a healthier lifestyle....no fleas, few rats, sewage sytems and better nutrition and not living in an era of crop failure and the "Little Ice Age"....
Infections mainly occur in the weak, young...old and those subject to malnutrition.
Didn't the Rolling Stones write a song about this?