Tuesday, December 22, 2009

What happens to that .1 percent of bacteria not killed by antibacterial hand soap?

They are mutants that are immune to antibacterials. So, they reproduce, and you get a strain of immune bacteria, which means you need to find a new kind of antibacterial soap to fight this mutant strain. You use it, and it kills all but .1 percent, which is now a new mutant that is immune to the first and the second antibacterial.





And the process repeats and repeats to the point where we get mutant strains of bacteria. This is like MRSA, it gets into your system and runs amok, because there isn't anything that can kill it.What happens to that .1 percent of bacteria not killed by antibacterial hand soap?
good question. i wonder if that's what it actually means. or that it kills 99.9% of common bacteria that we're likely to run into in our daily routines or something else. either way, if they survive, it probably means they have some resistance to it already and will reproduce.What happens to that .1 percent of bacteria not killed by antibacterial hand soap?
They reproduce.





Those bacteria had something special that made them resistant to the soap. After they reproduce they pass that trait to their children and so on and so on. So they get increasingly resistant to the antibacterial hand soap.
It mutates into the Asian Bird Flu virus. Better just use bleach on everything.
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