Argentine ant workers with brood. Unlike humans, ants react immediately to pathogen contamination and not only to the later-developing symptoms of a disease. Nestmates efficiently groom off infectious particles from colony members.
Argentine ant workers with brood. Unlike humans, ants react immediately to pathogen contamination and not only to the later-developing symptoms of a disease. Nestmates efficiently groom off infectious particles from colony members. Scientists from Austria and Germany show that pathogenic fungi are adapting to social health care measures by ants. Not only humans are social, ants are too. Group members are taking care of sick ones by providing collective hygiene measures. This presents germs with a task.
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