Scientists pinpoint when harmless bacteria became flesh-eating monsters
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Bacterial diseases cause millions of deaths every year. Most of these bacteria were benign at some point in their evolutionary past, and we don't always understand what turned them into disease-causing pathogens. In a new study, researchers have tracked down when this switch happened in a flesh-eating bacteria. They think the knowledge might help predict future epidemics.