On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:41:11 +0000 (UTC), (Flash
Wilson) wrote:

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:40:35 GMT, Altum wrote:
Notice how resistant the isolated strain is to antibiotics. As well as
being a good reason to wash your hands after playing in your fishtank,
this is a very compelling reason to avoid using antibiotics in aquaria.

I always wash my hands after tank maintenance... otherwise they
smell "tanky"! And I wonder if the same applies in the UK where
we don't get antibiotics for pets over the counter, so it's
very rarely seen in home aquaria. Be interesting to compare.

I don't think we can blame North Americans for this one. Clipped from
The New York Times:

Though the particular drug-resistant strain identified in Australia
has yet to be reported from American aquariums, Dr. Fred Angulo of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that taking the sorts
of precautions that Dr. Lightfoot and Dr. Gaulin recommended made good
sense.

The article headline was something about Nemo. Maybe this story will
scare some mommies enough that they will stop buying cute little Nemos
for their snotty nosed little brats to imprison and slowly poison in
little fishbowls.

-- Mister Gardener

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