After birth babies’ guts are rapidly colonized from their moms'.
November 3, 2016 10:30 AM   Subscribe

4. More people die of sepsis in the US than HIV, Prostate Cancer and Breast Cancer combined
Click through for more One Health Day Fun Facts from the University of Illinois Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and the College of Veterinary Medicine! All Fun Facts include references!

The IGB is also tweeting out these Fun Facts today, and if you are lucky enough to be at U of I you can walk the One Health pathway, where signs have been posted with Fun Facts that you can snap and post to social media.

Some particularly fun ones:
7. It is estimated that by 2050 globally 10 million people per year will die from infections with antimicrobial resistant pathogens. This is more than are predicted to die from cancer.

Sugden, Rebecca, Ruth Kelly, and Sally Davies. “Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance Globally.” Nature Microbiology 1, no. 10 (September 27, 2016): 16187. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.187.

12. A typical bowel movement can contain up to 100 billion organisms
Franks, Alison H., et al. "Variations of bacterial populations in human feces measured by fluorescent in situ hybridization with group-specific 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes."

Applied and Environmental Microbiology64.9 (1998): 3336-3345.

101. Oral antibiotics you take are going to radically alter your gut microbiota and it can take weeks to a year for the microbiota to fully recover.

https://depts.washington.edu/ceeh/downloads/FF_Microbiome.pdf
posted by grobstein (29 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
How could I forget:
91. Making hot sauce ends up concentrating these plant viruses which remain in the human gut after they are eaten.
Zhang et al. 2005 PLoS Biology
posted by grobstein at 10:31 AM on November 3, 2016 [3 favorites]


5. Currently, 700,000 people a year globally die from antibiotic resistance infections.

YOU PEOPLE HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD "FUN" THAN I DO.
posted by Harvey Jerkwater at 10:52 AM on November 3, 2016 [20 favorites]


21. Smoking owners can increase the risk of cancer in pets

Indeed, we have diametrically opposed definitions of fun.

Fascinating, though.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 11:06 AM on November 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


YOU PEOPLE HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD "FUN" THAN I DO.

It could be 800,000.
posted by Etrigan at 11:12 AM on November 3, 2016 [3 favorites]


I had to read the title 3 times while wondering what an after birth baby might possibly be.
posted by hippybear at 11:25 AM on November 3, 2016 [13 favorites]


You keep using that word
posted by jeribus at 11:26 AM on November 3, 2016


I once watched a super cute baby elephant eat his mom's poop. I wondered if we ultra clean humans were doing it right.
posted by Bee'sWing at 11:33 AM on November 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Another of my faves:
13. An average sneeze will spread over 100,000 virus cells up to 30 feet
Gerone, Peter J., et al. "Assessment of experimental and natural viral aerosols." Bacteriological reviews 30.3 (1966): 576.
Shoutout to my aerosols.
posted by grobstein at 11:38 AM on November 3, 2016


The list is cool, but there is some sloppy writing in the "facts" cited by the first link. For example, take this:
32. The CDC estimates that more than 6 out of every 10 infectious diseases in humans are spread from animals.
On its face, this looks like 6 out of every 10 cases of every instance of infection disease are spread from, like, Fido licking your hand or, y'know, fucking a duck. But if you click through, it's pretty fucking clear from the article itself that it's 6 out of 10 diseases have zoonotic origins.

I'd guess plenty of these other facts are similarly sloppily-written and unreliable, but they appear to be in journals.

/pedant
posted by joyceanmachine at 11:40 AM on November 3, 2016 [6 favorites]


I skimmed the title and for some reason all that stood out to me was "BABIES' GUTS" and I briefly wondered if I'd be reading about Peter Thiel's newest creepy anti-aging therapy.
posted by indubitable at 11:47 AM on November 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Does anyone know how I track down these references? Fact 91 (posted above, about the hot sauce) only cites "Zhang et al. 2005 PLoS Biology". But that doesn't narrow things down to an article; I looked at all the issues of PLoS Biology from 2005, but none of the ones with a "Zhang" as a coauthor seemed relevant.
posted by The Notorious B.F.G. at 11:52 AM on November 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


I did an advanced search on PLoS

(author:Zhang) AND publication_date:[2005-01-01T00:00:00Z TO 2005-12-31T23:59:59Z]

and filtered by PLoS biology and got the relevant article: RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses.

Choosing the "Advanced Search" option to the lower right of the search box gives dropdowns for search options so you don't have to write that weird search query by hand.

In general, just dropping the whole citation into google scholar and then using some filters can find most papers.
posted by congen at 12:03 PM on November 3, 2016 [5 favorites]


I wondered if we ultra clean humans were doing it right.

I TRIED! THE STUFF SOLD OUT IMMEDIATELY!
posted by maxsparber at 12:42 PM on November 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


Shoutout to my aerosols.

To aerosols I've spread before ...
On counters, hands, and on the door...
I owe my family's
preponderance of disease
to aerosols I've spread before.
posted by uncleozzy at 12:43 PM on November 3, 2016 [9 favorites]


Shoutout to my aerosols.

Just so you know, they prefer raspberries.
posted by jamjam at 12:51 PM on November 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


21. Smoking owners can increase the risk of cancer in pets

I've heard of pets eating owners, but never smoking them!
posted by Kabanos at 1:02 PM on November 3, 2016 [12 favorites]


Land pollinators they work all day
Out in the sun bees fly away
Don't go zoea hatin'
We're pollinatin'
Under the sea


Land pollinators... pollinating under the sea... does not compute... what is zoea...
posted by pintapicasso at 1:11 PM on November 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


48. Humans caught pubic lice from gorillas about 3 million years ago.

Errrrrrr. Early humans, we need to talk.
posted by arha at 1:13 PM on November 3, 2016 [3 favorites]


This is a cool post, thanks. The vet school where I work is also deeply invested in the One Health movement, and there are some really cool partnerships forming between doctors here and at "human" hospitals (as those of us in Vet Med call them) in the area.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:14 PM on November 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


Once you go silverback you never go back.
posted by Kabanos at 1:14 PM on November 3, 2016 [4 favorites]


Societal medical costs of antibiotic resistance are estimated at $20 billion dollars per year in the US alone.

This is supposed to come down since the ACA will no longer pay hospital Medicaid claims if the patient is being treated for a acquired infection contracted during their primary treatment. Also why hospitals are spending more money on environmental hygiene.
posted by waving at 1:35 PM on November 3, 2016


21. Smoking owners can increase the risk of cancer in pets

I don't know how these cats got their owners wedged into their pipes, or why.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:27 PM on November 3, 2016 [5 favorites]


Hey, I nearly died of sepsis two and a half years ago! After an infection that didn't respond to two different antibiotics! Glad I could contribute to the general level of fun.

"Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice."

So, they're still putting out the Journal of Abysmal Scientific Crotch Puns?
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:58 PM on November 3, 2016 [6 favorites]


eponysterical
posted by Kabanos at 3:29 PM on November 3, 2016 [3 favorites]


Really! How many people ever contract HIV, Prostate Cancer and Breast Cancer combined!
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:12 PM on November 3, 2016 [3 favorites]


After birth babies’ guts are rapidly colonized from their moms'.

This sentence needs a comma.

like, Fido licking your hand or, y'know, fucking a duck.

Responsible duck fuckers use condoms.
posted by a strong female character at 6:24 PM on November 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Ah, the good old IGB. Home of the ugliest art on campus. Multicolored blobs of chewed gum.
posted by MsMolly at 6:34 PM on November 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


C-section baby microbiome solution:
So Dominguez-Bello teamed up with computational biologist and microbiome expert Jose C. Clemente of New York City’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to launch an unusual clinical trial. They and their colleagues recruited moms scheduled to have a C-section. An hour before the operation, the researchers placed sterile gauze inside the mother’s vagina, where it was left until just before surgery began. At that point, the team placed it in a sterile container. Within 3 minutes of the baby’s grand entrance, doctors whipped out the gauze and rubbed it all over the newborn’s body, starting with the lips and face.

“We know that this is an approximation; we cannot reproduce all the factors that are involved in labor,” Clemente says, noting that his own daughter was in the birth canal “for hours.” At most, newborns in this study got a minute’s rub-down with the bacteria from their mother’s vagina.
posted by asok at 3:57 AM on November 4, 2016


> …and filtered by PLoS biology and got the relevant article: RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses.

The surprising presence of all those plant viruses in human feces actually makes a lot of sense.

If you eat plants raw, a lot of living, tough, and potentially very hard to digest plant cells are going to end up in your digestive tract, but plant viruses are specialists in getting into those cells, replicating, and then bursting the cells open, presumably making the contents much more available to digestion.

Which might mean that if you modified plants to be resistant or immune to their usual viruses, which would seem to be a reasonable objective of plant science since it would increase productivity, you might end up making those plants quite a bit less nutritious in salads -- and to your gut bacteria.
posted by jamjam at 5:02 PM on November 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


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