Forscher fanden einen Bakterienstamm, der unter 5000 Jahren Höhleneis vergraben war und gegen 10 moderne Antibiotika resistent ist. Das Bakterium verfügt außerdem über über 100 Gene, von denen bekannt ist, dass sie mit Resistenzen zusammenhängen. Es ist bekannt, dass Psychrobacter Menschen und Tiere infiziert, allerdings selten, da es kalte Umgebungen bevorzugt.

Ancient bacteria found in an underground ice cave is resistant to multiple antibiotics

Like something out of an 80s horror movie, international **researchers have gone and found a strain of bacteria buried under 5000 years of cave ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics**. The team discovered that the Psychrobacter SC65A.3 bacterial strain was isolated from the Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania, and the team say that, on top of the resistances, **the bacterium has over 100 genes that are known to be resistance-related. Psychrobacter is known to infect humans and animals, though rarely as the species prefers cold environments**.

From the academic press release here:

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/ancient-bacteria-found-in-an-underground-ice-cave-is-resistant-to-multiple-antibiotics

That’s the opening of the SciFi novel: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu. It’s a virus in the book though.

May I suggest that we put it back where we found it?

Burn every sample delete all research . Exile those who found it to that cave

The best course of action now is to FAFO and do gain-of-function experiments on it.

I’ve seen „The Thing“… and it wasn’t a great scenario.

Why would it be antibiotic resistant unless it has encountered antibiotics before?