Although most bacteria are harmless or often beneficial, several are pathogenic. One of the bacterial diseases with the highest disease burden is tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which kills about 2 million people a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.athogenic bacteria contribute to other globally important diseases, such as pneumonia, which can be caused by bacteria such as Streptococcus and Pseudomonas, and foodborne illnesses, which can be caused by bacteria such as Shigella, Campylobacter, and Salmonella.
exists and is an alternate of . The brooms are used to sweep the ice in front of a sliding rock. The friction created from sweeping melts the ice just a tiny bit, enough to decrease the friction between the rock and the ice, making the rock both slide farther and slide straighter (curl less).
Special curling shoes are common; shoes should grip the ice well. While shooting, extremely slippery surfaces such as Teflon are used on the sliding foot. Some are built into the shoes and others are strapped on over the shoes. Rock. Also known as a stone, a curling rock is made of rare, dense granite that is quarried on Scotland's Ailsa Craig.