King’s College London
An international consortium, including a team from King’s Forensics, has reported the largest-ever global metagenomic study of urban microbiomes, spanning both the air and the surfaces of multiple cities.
The international project sequenced and analysed samples collected from public transport systems and hospitals in 60 cities around the world, including on the London Underground. The study, published today in Cell with a companion paper in the journal Microbiome, features comprehensive analysis and annotation for all the microbial species identified including thousands of viruses and bacteria and two archaea not found in reference databases.
The findings are based on 4,728 samples from cities on six continents taken over the course of three years, characterise regional antimicrobial resistance markers, and represent the first systematic worldwide catalogue of the urban microbial ecosystem. In addition to distinct microbial signatures in various cities, t
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Justin Scarr
Survival swimming launch in rural Bangladesh, 2005.
Picture: SUPPLIED (Justin Scarr)
The United Nations General Assembly passed its first-ever Resolution on Global Drowning Prevention (A/75/L.76) during the 75th session on April 28, 2021.
The resolution was proposed by Bangladesh and Ireland, and co-sponsored by more than 79 nations, including Australia.
In introducing the Resolution at the UN General Assembly in New York, the Ambassador and permanent representative of Bangladesh to the UN, Rabab Fatima, said: “Drowning is a major cause of global mortality, accounting for a greater loss of life annually, than to maternal mortality or malnutrition. The imperative to act on drowning is not simply moral or political. The economic cost is equally untenable.”