Airplane sewage may be helping antibiotic-resistant microbes spread
Around 90 percent of sampled globetrotting E. coli were resistant to at least one drug

Airplane sewage ends up with a cosmopolitan mix of microbes and the genes that make those bacteria resistant to antibiotic drugs.
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