Sharing a bed with your dog may improve your sleep quality - but it can negatively impact your overall health. Experts are urging dog owners against regularly sharing a bed with their pets following a spread of an "untreatable superbug".
The mcr-1 gene, believed to be transmitted from animals to humans, has built up a resistance to certain life-saving drugs. With drug-resistant infections killing an estimated 700,000 people a year worldwide, the UN warns this could rise to 10 million by 2050 if nothing is done.
Its research team has warned of an instance where humans can pick up the bug, which was first identified in China in 2015. Dogs can harbour mcr-1 in the their gut before it's transported via microscopic feacal particles.
