They're calling it “bacterial vampirism.' E. coli and other species crave human blood serum as a food source, a recent experiment revealed.
Eat your heart out, A24: Some real-life bacterial germs are literally hungry for our blood, new research suggests. Scientists have found evidence that certain disease-causing bacteria, including strains of Escherichia coli, are chemically attracted to the serum in our blood as a source of food. The horrifying findings seem to explain why these bacteria tend to cause life-threatening sepsis. The research was led by scientists from Washington State University.
To stimulate intestinal bleeding, they used human blood serum and a “custom injection-based microfluidics device.” The bacteria was almost instantly drawn to even microscopic amounts of blood, usually taking less than a minute to identify the presence of serum nearby and start moving toward it.
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