What are some ways bacteria is harmful to humans?

Question

At least three ways, other than disease and the intestine.

Answer 1

Most of you are talking about disease, which the asker specifically said not to talk about. I can actually think of only one, but it may spur other thoughts.

In a body of water that gets polluted with fertilizer runoff or soap, there is a high content of nutrients that allow microorganisms to flourish, bacteria included. These microorganisms steal all the oxygen away from other organisms and pretty much kill everything else in that body of water. How that is specifically harmful to humans, if the practice of phosphate dumping were allowed to go unchecked, we might lose important fishing grounds.

Answer 2

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What are some ways bacteria is harmful to humans?

Answer 3

The bacteria that process the waste your fish produce are good for the tank, harmless to the fish and you. The diseases your fish sometimes get are fish diseases not human. If there is a problem with your tank or it is filthy then there may be bacteria in it that are bad for you also. A well maintained clean tank is safe. You could drink out of it if you felt the need to and be just fine. Remember the good nitrogenizing bacteria that convert the ammonia and nitrites into nitrates are in your tap water, lakes, and rivers. Did you ever get water in your mouth swimming in the lake or river? Did you get sick? I would have no problems with a tank ANYWHERE in my kitchen. In fact it makes it sound easier to care for, unfortunately my kitchen is very very small. I hardly have room to cook let alone have fish in it.

Answer 4

Some are beneficial, others are not. They can invade the body and cause debilitating illnesses. Take, for instance, a particularly noxious genus of bacteria known as Libteria, which invade and destroy the human brain tissue and lead to the degenerative, debilitative libtard syndrome. It's very frightening.

Answer 5

"Bacteria are both harmful and useful to the environment and animals, including humans. The role of bacteria in disease and infection is important. Some bacteria act as pathogens and cause tetanus, typhoid fever, pneumonia, syphilis, cholera, food-borne illness, leprosy, and tuberculosis(TB). Sepsis, a systemic infectious syndrome characterized by shock and massive vasodilation, or localized infection, can be caused by bacteria such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, or many gram-negative bacteria. Some bacterial infections can spread throughout the host's body and become systemic. In plants, bacteria cause leaf spot, fireblight, and wilts. The mode of infection includes contact, air, food, water, and insect-borne microorganisms. The hosts infected with the pathogens may be treated with antibiotics, which can be classified as bacteriocidal and bacteriostatic, which at concentrations that can be reached in bodily fluids either kill bacteria or hamper their growth, respectively. Antiseptic measures may be taken to prevent infection by bacteria, for example, by swabbing skin with alcohol prior to piercing the skin with the needle of a syringe. Sterilization of surgical and dental instruments is done to make them sterile or pathogen-free to prevent contamination and infection by bacteria. Sanitizers and disinfectants are used to kill bacteria or other pathogens to prevent contamination and risk of infection."

Answer 6

Without bacteria in your intestines you could not survive.

Answer 7

I recommend you read Bill Bryson's book, Tom Standage's book and Brenda Watson's book.

Those will give you insight beyond your ordinary Biology textbook.

Answer 8

very often there protien coats are toxic to us and also the compounds that they release ie waste products or digestive ensymes are also toxic

Answer 9

Makes your breathe stink....there's one

Answer 10

causes illnesses and diseases