How microplastics may be stoking antibiotic resistance

(The Hill) -- The microscopic shards of plastic found in every corner of the planet may be exacerbating antibiotic resistance, a new study has found.Bacteria exposed to these ubiquitous fragments, known as "microplastics," became resistant to multiple types of antibiotics commonly used to treat infections, researchers showed in the study, published on Tuesday in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.The authors expressed alarm about their discovery, particularly for people living in high-d