Study indicates Alaskan gulls carry drug-resistant E. coli

Glaucous-winged Gull in breeding plumage at Seward, Alaska. (Wikimedia Commons photo by Dick Daniels)
As antibiotic-resistant superbugs become more common, they’re beginning to show up in places we wouldn’t expect.
A new study has found antibiotic-resistant E. coli in gulls living on the Kenai Peninsula.
There aren’t many people in the world who get excited about gull poop.
But Andy Ramey is one of them. He’s a research geneticist with the USGS Alaska Scien