Ain’t no mountain high enough — to keep germs from getting to you.
Humans aren’t the only organisms to scale the world’s tallest mountain: An analysis of soil samples taken from Mount Everest revealed that our coughs and sneezes are getting preserved in the mountain’s ice for hundreds of years. The alarming findings were published recently in the“There is a human signature frozen in the microbiome of Everest, even at that elevation,” Steven Schmidt, lead author and microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder,.
, a 26,000-foot-tall gap where mountaineers stop off before trying to reach the rooftop of the world.Scientists then sequenced the genetic material in the flu-print, marking the first time the tech had been used to analyze soil samples from such a high elevation. Using this method, researchers were able to identify strains of Staphylococcus and Streptococcus bacteria that commonly reside in our skin and mouths.
Researchers suspect that it was humans that likely gave Everest the cooties. Indeed, most of the samples were collected around 558 feet away from where hundreds of sneezing, snuffling mountain climbers stop off each year before attempting to summit the world’s tallest peak, “We predict that if we sampled in the more human-utilized areas on the mountain we may find even more microbial evidence of human impact on the environment,” the scientists added. These numbers could potentially increase amid theAlpine pilgrimages aren’t the only factors in the germ-ination of Mount Everest. Researchers predict that previously dormant bacteria could become more active in the future due to the mountain’s warming air temperatures, which are rising an average of 0.33 C per decade.
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