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The Qur'an is telling you to turn away from the idiots who are bringing this world to the brink of WW3, ...
In 1992, researchers working in a lab found that Enterococcus faecalis (which inhabits our intestinal tract) were able to transfer genes for vancomycin resistance to S. aureus. They predicted that we would eventually see the same thing happen in a hospital since both E. faecalis and S. aureus are common there and face selective pressure to survive an onslaught from vancomycin. In 2002, it happened. Biologists analyzed a vancomycin-resistant S. aureus strain infecting a Michigan dialysis patient and found that it was the product of horizontal transfer: the bacteria had picked up their resistance genes from E. faecalis.