Aircraft toilet waste to track infectious bugs.

[deanm]

Nice work if you can get it....(!)

"Analysis and genome sequencing of disease-causing microorganisms and antimicrobial resistance bacteria in toilet waste from international aircraft could be a first step towards global surveillance of infectious diseases and identification of how they are transmitted between countries".

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0819083648.htm

Dean

[bugeater]

In a former life one of my tasks involved extracting DNA from poo. Let us monitor the spread of a particular virus. Fun times. Not human, thank god.