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Australian gulls are carrying superbugs resistant to antibiotics, raising fears that disease-causing bacteria may spread from the birds to humans, livestock and pets.<\/p>\n

A team of scientists led by researchers at Perth\u2019s Murdoch University found more than 20% of silver gulls nationwide were carrying pathogenic bacteria, such as E coli, that are resistant to drugs. E coli can cause urinary tract infections, life-threatening sepsis and meningitis.<\/p>\n

Dr Sam Abraham, a lecturer in veterinary and medical infectious diseases at the university, said the \u201ceye-opening\u201d study should be a wake-up call for Australian governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian gulls are carrying superbugs resistant to antibiotics, raising fears that disease-causing bacteria may spread from the birds to humans, livestock and pets. A team of scientists led by researchers at Perth\u2019s Murdoch University found more than 20% of silver gulls nationwide were carrying pathogenic bacteria, such as E coli, that are resistant to drugs. E coli can cause urinary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2019\/07\/patryk-sobczak-bS92UkQY8xI-unsplash-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}