DANGER
By Alexandria Schmitz
What is Bacteria?
According to www.livescience.com, bacteria are microscopic single-celled organisms that thrive in diverse environments. They can live within soil, in the ocean and inside the human gut. Humans' relationship with bacteria is complex. Sometimes they lend a helping hand, by curdling milk into yogurt, or helping with our digestion. At other times they are destructive, causing diseases like pneumonia and MRSA.
3 Bad Kinds of Bacteria
E-Coli
E. Coli can cause severe abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea and vomiting. You can be exposed to the bacteria by contaminated water or food. You can also get
Streptococci
Strep throat is another word for Streptococci. Strep throat is a virus that makes you have a sore throat and sometimes a fever.
Anthrax
Anthrax affects the lungs and the skin. The bacteria cause a severe skin ulceration or a form of pneumonia.
Ways Bacteria is bad for Humans
- Bacteria can contaminate a water, therefore polluting the water and hurting the wild game and the humans who eat the wild game (ex. fish, small critters)
- Bacteria can cause many food-borne illnesses resulting from unwashed or under cooked products. It can be harmful to humans that consume the product and can result in food poisoning.
- If a human gets a cut and it isn't treated properly it can cause and infection. Resulting in the human may result in death or having to get a limb removed.
Other Facts
Bacteria are considered living. They are so small you have to use a microscope to use a microscope. Bacteria produce oxygen. Bacteria's can live in icy to hot springs, they can even live in radioactive waste. A bacterium can be shaped like a sphere (coccus), rod (bacillus) or spiral (spirillum).
Here is a video explaining what a bacteria is.
Bacteria for Kids - Animation Video