• Question: whats the most deadliest bacteria

    Asked by anon-233077 to Varun, Sammie, Rebecca, Anna, Alin, Adam on 19 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-233091.
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      Varun Ramaswamy answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Ooh that’s a great question..I would say its Heliobacter pylori- that’s the bacteria that causes stomach cancer and sometimes even spreads to the intestines. Now there are drug-resistant varieties of this too!

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      Samantha Firth answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      I would say Clostridium Botulinum – the MOST POTENT toxin known to man!🔮 You can ingest it or it can develop in wounds. It attacks the nervous system by producing the neurotoxin botulinum❌ It and causes issues with breathing, swallowing and speaking. You eventually stop breathing altogether because your muscles become paralysed and then you die 🙃😳‼

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      Rebecca Shaw answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      I would say it’s Mycobacterium Tuberculosis – it is multi drug resistant so suuuper hard to treat. It causes about 1.7 million deaths per year and is super sneaky because it evades detection by hiding in our white blood cells (the ones that are supposed to kill it!).

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