Aussie Gulls carry superbug (1 Viewer)

Think twice the next time you feel like cosying up to a Gull in OZ.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-48916923

It shouldn't really come as a surprise when you realise that they forage on dumps and dead stuff.

Interesting...wonder why in Australia? It's always amazing to me how there are countless deadly things that can kill you down there in OZ...deadliest snakes,spiders,crocodiles,jellyfish..now this bird's superbug! :t:

I still want to take a trip there before I die! :-O

While I was carrying out a urban breeding Yellow-legged Gull survey in the city of Lagos, Portugal in 2008, I was contacted by a Swedish team of ornithologists and doctors who wanted to know of good sites to collect gull pooh where I was working. They came down to Lagos and nearby Portimão fishing ports to collect samples - their aim was to detect antibiotics in the food chain via gulls. They drove down from Sweden in a van kitted out with a freezer to keep the samples below -40ºC, to be analysed in Sweden.

I never got any feedback regarding the results but I did get a thank-you.

So this problem has been studied for a while now.