Salmon Full of Cocaine and Antidepressants? Study Finds Puget Sound Fish Full of Drugs

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8. Here's a good reason.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in the Milwaukee harbor.

http://m.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-harbor-a-hot-spot-for-bacteria-resistant-to-antibiotics-b99643194z1-364033921.html


"Tests found that drug resistance in the bacteria was most prevalent for widely used antibiotics, including erythromycin, sulfamethoxazole, aztreonam and ampicillin.

Exposure to the lurking bacteria through swimming, wading or other activities could become another way that residential and agricultural overuse of soaps, detergents, drugs and other products containing antibacterial compounds will come back to bite the public, Hristova said.

When resistant bacteria from the environment contact skin or enter a person's body, they can transfer genes enabling antibiotic resistance to bacteria residing in mucus or in intestines, according to Hristova."