Tuesday, 21 September 2010

BBC News - Seagulls 'may be spreading superbugs'

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This item brings together two of my intellectual interests – ornithology (particularly Larids) and microbiology – both of which I studied at Monash University in the 70s.  It’s like bumping  into a couple of old friends.

But alas the contents of the item bring no comfort.  Given the numbers of gulls in urban areas in Scotland: Common Gulls, Back-Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls and Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, all of which wage merciless war on mankind, it is surely only a matter of time until they add biological warfare to their repertoire.

BBC News - Seagulls 'may be spreading superbugs'

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