{"id":168064,"date":"2023-07-22T00:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/its-raining-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria"},"modified":"2023-07-22T00:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:24:41","slug":"its-raining-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/its-raining-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Raining Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VP09H7zk9Ic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an educational video. It does suggest a bit of a solution and it\u2019s a good reason to be careful about eating snow maybe or drinking rain water? I\u2019m no expert but now I\u2019m wary though I haven\u2019t heard of anyone getting sick from doing so.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bacteria are everywhere, including clouds, and the rain that falls from them. Not only can they survive the harsh environment and hitchhike across continents, they can share their genes, too. Including the ones that make them resistant to antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by: Hank Green (he\/him)<br \/> \u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/scishow\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/scishow<\/a>.<br \/> \u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tom\u00e1s Lagos Gonz\u00e1lez, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer.<br \/> \u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?<br \/> SciShow Tangents Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/scishow-tangents.simplecast.com\/\">https:\/\/scishow-tangents.simplecast.com\/<\/a><br \/> TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@scishow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@scishow<\/a>.<br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/scishow\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/scishow<\/a>.<br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thescishowFacebook:\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/thescishowFacebook:<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scishow\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scishow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly.<br \/> \u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Sources:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"4 Animals That Don\u2019t Have Resident Gut Microbiomes\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yG2W2tMAnaY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0048969722083681?via%3Dihub\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0048969722083681?via%3Dihub<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/86\/i15\/Bacteria-Clouds.html\">https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/86\/i15\/Bacteria-Clouds.html<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6616856\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6616856\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/femsre\/article\/46\/4\/fuac009\/6524182\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/femsre\/article\/46\/4\/fuac009\/6524182<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/987590\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/987590<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nouvelles.ulaval.ca\/2023\/04\/27\/des-genes-de-resistance-aux-antibiotiques-dans-les-nuages-a:47ddb152-75c8-41f4-bd48-85e1d9292a65\">https:\/\/nouvelles.ulaval.ca\/2023\/04\/27\/des-genes-de-resistan\u2026e1d9292a65<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0048969722083681?via%3Dihub#s0080\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S004896972\u2026ihub#s0080<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/bacteria-and-viruses-are-travelling-the-world-on-highways-in-the-sky-142854\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/bacteria-and-viruses-are-travell\u2026sky-142854<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5864199\/pdf\/41396_2017_Article_42.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5864199\/pdf\/413\u2026cle_42.pdf<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmicb.2018.01752\/full\">https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmicb.2018.01752\/full<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3574924\/pdf\/pnas.201212089.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3574924\/pdf\/pnas.201212089.pdf<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlehtml\/2019\/md\/c9md00120d\">https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlehtml\/2019\/md\/c9md00120d<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmicb.2015.00194\/full\">https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmicb.2015.00194\/full<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/genetics-glossary\/Plasmid\">https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/genetics-glossary\/Plasmid<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/bacteria\/Exchange-of-genetic-information\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/bacteria\/Exchange-of-genetic-information<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/antibiotic-resistance\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/antibiotic-resistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Images Sources:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/its-raining-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria\">Continue reading \u201cIt\u2019s Raining Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an educational video. It does suggest a bit of a solution and it\u2019s a good reason to be careful about eating snow maybe or drinking rain water? I\u2019m no expert but now I\u2019m wary though I haven\u2019t heard of anyone getting sick from doing so. Bacteria are everywhere, including clouds, and the rain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}