Flying insects in hospitals carry ‘superbug’ germs

Many flies and flying insects in hospitals carry bacteria that could pose an infection risk to patients, and more than half of them carry the types that resist antibiotics, a new study says. The findings show that “a variety of flying insects collected from U.K. hospitals do indeed harbor pathogenic bacteria of different species,” said study lead author Federica Boiocchi, a Ph.D. student at Aston University in Birmingham. The study also found that 53 percent of the bacterial strains on the insects were resistant to at least one class of antibiotics — so-called “superbugs.”

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