6 Deadly Diseases in Your Backyard
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- You may think you're safe from deadly diseases like the Bubonic Plague... but did you know there are many serious illnesses hiding in your own backyard? Join Olivia Gordon for a new episode of SciShow that's a little creepy and a lot interesting! Let's get digging!
Head to scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe!
----------
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: / scishow
----------
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
----------
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: / scishow
Twitter: / scishow
Tumblr: / scishow
Instagram: / thescishow
----------
Sources:
Plague
www.britannica.com/event/Blac...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr...
www.cdc.gov/plague/symptoms/i...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.who.int/news-room/fact-she...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.usgs.gov/news/oral-plague...
Sin Nombre Virus
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/outbre...
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/rodent...
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/survei...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/techni...
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hps/sy...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/3/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Tularemia
www.cdc.gov/tularemia/statist...
www.cdc.gov/tularemia/faq/ind...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr...
emergency.cdc.gov/agent/agent...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
aac.asm.org/content/44/12/3428...
Legionnaire’s disease
www.cdc.gov/legionella/about/...
www.cdc.gov/legionella/about/...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
Cysticercosis
www.cdc.gov/parasites/cystice...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Amoeba
www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegler...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.weather.gov/safety/lightn...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
You know the episode is gonna be lit when THE PLAGUE IS SIXTH
:(
r/agedlikemilk
You know the legend is going to be a tragedy when it's about PLAGEUIS THE SITH
@@lukakresoja5297 yeah covid killed a 3rd of Europe since this video
*HANDWASHING INTENSIFIES*
Yeah
Yeah
Unless the water is contaminated
Me after shitting.
Yeah
In my OWN backyard?! But that's adjacent to where I live!!
dun dun dunnnnnn
It's more likely than you think.
Paul's Garage - You need to move to another state to get away from your backyard.
@@dm.6133 omfg loool
Paul's Garage You think thats bad, but your backyard is where I live.
I'm pretty sure I have seen all of these affect patients on House MD.
Right?? Haha
Great show
I was listing them off as we went lol
Yep. Also a show called Something's Killing Me, which goes into the real life versions of rare diseases.
Most yea but not all 😂😂😂 to bad they never did a show on his kid being a savage doctor like her father
La la la time to stay inside FOREVER and never touch ANYTHING!
But there is the one disease the lady said where"you don't even need to go outside to get it"
Sorry buddy. Small furry animals live with us. Sleep well ...
*Gets legionnaires.
Good luck with all that Legionella living with you.
Guuuuuys, don’t spoil my safe inside bubble idea 😩 haha
I *DO* gain comfort knowing I'm more likely to die from lightning that the plague - I think it'll be a _shocking_ experience....
Bwah hah hahh hahhh hahhhr hahhhrr hahhhrrr hahhhrrR hahhhrRR hahhhRRR hahhHRRR hahHHRRR haHHHRRR hAHHHRRR HAHHHRRR!
Don't worry about plague.
It's treatable with antibiotics and even seems poor at developing resistances to them.
If you live anywhere with access to even 20th century medicine, you're not going to die from it.
Eggciting to say the least
Lol and lots of people survive being struck by lightning. :-)
have a hundredth like for that.
When I was a kid, I used to hear mysteries about a worm or a centipede that goes inside you ears, eats through it and gets to your brain to ultimately kill it too. So I used to clean my ear a lot and never kept my ear on a grassy place.
Now that I hear about this Brain-eating microbe amoeba thing which I can't even see, I feel like I need to have my body sterilized every second.
I know this is an old comment but the brain-eating amoeba is usually found in fresh bodies of water in warmer regions that have slow moving water. So as long as you swim with a nose plug in these types of water conditions you shouldn't contract the illness or at least it would be a lot harder to contract this disease while wearing a nose plug. Plus it's extremely rare. I watched either a mystery diagnosis or monster's inside me episode once talking about this brain-eating amoeba once and spreading awareness about how you can prevent yourself from getting the illness. Also another helpful tip on how to prevent yourself from getting this disease is to make sure you never use a nettipot or any other sort of nasal rinse with just tap water or bottled water, it must be either distilled, filtered, or boiled water that has cooled down to room temp. Just some random helpful info on how to prevent getting this illness. A positive thing about this illness is that it's almost impossible to become a plague or outbreak with this illness because of the way that it's spread.
@@RebekahInspires also, using saline nasal rinses can help. Just allow the saline solution to sit for a while if you’ve just made it, and be wary of potential damage to any appliance you might be using to perform it (so, preferably avoid using saline in those cases, and only use saline with other rinsing techniques). Letting it sit for a few minutes (I’d estimate 10-20, though I’m not 100% sure of how long it’d take) will help ensure the amoebas are all killed by the hypertonic solution.
It’s also important to remember that the amoebas likely *don’t* intend to enter your brain at all. If they do so, they end up *dying with the host,* so evidence seems to suggest infections are unintentional, as they’re a dead-end for the amoebas, too. This is similar to how pork tapeworms are basically doomed if they end up in your brain. They can’t continue their lifecycle once they’re up there. This actually makes them *more* dangerous because a dead worm no longer produces anti-inflammatory excretions, and your body typically mounts a massive immune response that can be deadly.
Just be smart, stay educated about local parasites, and you’ll usually be fine. Prior to travel, you should also ensure you thoroughly research parasites found in your destination, and ways to avoid them. This is also why many areas require vaccination prior to entry, and you may need to quarantine (aside from COVID) after a trip, either upon entering your destination, or when returning.
Trying to sanitize your entire body is obviously BAD. You need your good microbiome to survive.
"Or, you know, you could just head to the ocean..."
*_Algal Bloom has entered the chat._*
You can also get a dangerous infection from Vibrio vulnificus bacteria (related to the bacterium that causes cholera) from salt water, especially warm salt water as in the Gulf of Mexico. It enters through skin wounds such as cuts or abrasions exposed to the water and is deadly. Cholera bacteria can also survive in salt water by encysting itself inside algae. The massive Seventh Pandemic of cholera, which originated in the Bay of Bengal in India and Bangladesh, made its way across the Pacific in ship bilge water containing infected algae, and caused severe illness in Chile and Peru when people ate ceviche, a raw shellfish dish. The shellfish had ingested the algae that contained the cholera bacteria. From infected humans, the bacteria then made its way into the local water systems, which were underchlorinated at the time due to unfounded public fear of chlorine-caused cancer. There are many other dangerous pathogens which thrive in salt water. As the narrator said, microbes are literally everywhere.
Hypochondriacs just died
Or they just think that they did
Crap my father and I are hypochondriacs 🤣😅
Or so they thought
My boss just got legionella, it was misdiagnosed for a week (they thought he had a regular pneumonia). He was lucky he had a friend of a friend working as a pulmonologist in a hospital: they did a urin test, gave him a legionella treatment but did not release him: the infection was reaching his heart ! He had to stay on observation and had IV antibiotics therapy for 5 days. This is serious stuff ! In France where we live, the legionella has to be declared to the authorities by the hospital/doctors. The French CDC called my friend while he was still in the hospital, they opened an investigation to find out where he got infected: he had to disclose his whereabouts for 15 days before the symptoms, the likely culprit is a spa in a B&B he stayed a week before...
My name is Legionella, for we are many.
My name is Legionella, for we are manyella.
My milkshakes bring all bacteria to the yard, and they like
This joke makes zero sense, and yet, I laughed
They're like//
...its better than SARS.
Ewwahh Eternus
SARS's friend COVID2019 approves this meassage
@@alexanderkhlifi8591 i wouldnt have liked that joke if i wasnt baked but you can take the like for now, until further review.
Deer mice not only carry plague, they also are secondary hosts for the deer tick, helping to spread Lyme disease.
Muscle Hank will save us.
you got that right!
muscle hank
muscle hank
does whatever a muscle can
can he gain muscle maasss
yes he can
look out he is the muscle haaaank!!
hustle hank will rob us
Hank is deae
But what about Hustle Muscle Hank? Can he defeat Muscle Hank?
The lake near where I grew up had Naegleria outbreaks every few years. For some reason the out breaks were more likely when the water level dropped and an invasive species of water plant would grow and almost choke out the lake. People learned to not swim when that plant was present.
Tularemia is named after Tulare Co in California where I think it’s especially common in the Central Valley. (It’s also called Valley Fever.) When I did field work in college in Merced Co, I remember being a bit disconcerted at having to sign a waiver about potentially contracting Tularemia from just being exposed to the dirt and dust of the Central Valley.
No, valley fever (Coccidiomycosis) is caused by a fungus called Coccidioides, which lives in the soil in dry regions. It can be inhaled in blowing dust. Tularemia is an entirely different disease caused by a bacteria (Francisella tularensis) that lives in rodents and rabbits and is contracted most commonly by skin contact with the blood or tissues of infected animals, bites from infected ticks that have fed on rabbits or rodents, ingestion of meat from contaminated animals, and inhalation of contaminated droplets or materials from these animals or insects.
Fun fact: Olivia is the only person i enjoy learning horrible and dangerous things from. keep them coming :D
Liam McIrishman u fuken did nothing
I really appreciate how loud this channel is. Makes watching on the phone so much easier. 👍👍
My decorative fountain is not tacky! *harrumph! 🤨🤣
The ameoba is super common, infection is very rare though as the human is simply a mistaken food source for the ameoba, plus you have to get water VERY far up your nose in order to even pose a risk
Oh Wow! That is really disturbing but I am glad I know. The history of germs and pathogens is so interesting and a lot of deseases that we have put in the back of our mind STILL exist. Thanks for this video! Can't wait for the next one and DFTBA!
I don't have to worry about these because I don't go outside
Edit: oh wait nevermind
See??? SEE?!?!?? NEVER GO OUTSIDE!!!! NEVER!!!
*hides inside and plays video games*
And meanwhile in your water... :P
Thanks SciShow, I live in Arizona and most of these diseases are lurking in the shadows waiting for me to go outside.
Is that just US backyards? I only ask as a foreigner.
Canadians are too polite to be infected. The vira an microbes would feel guilty.
Plague could be anywhere (Madagascar's mountains are full of it) hanta virus exists pretty much anywhere where there are rodents so use a mask when cleaning your garage (usually not as dangerous as the us version)
Francisella tularensis tularensis is the lethal one F.t. holarctia is the prevalent type in Europe and Asia it usually isn't recognized as francisella before the patient is well and home again(working in a lab found 2 out of 10 cases in Germany this year)
These Amoebae exist everywhere as well. PAME is rare though.
Tapeworms of the Genus (unsure about the English word) echinococcus can be found anywhere as well.
I think I forgot one not sure.
The title says US backyards
+Michael Gibb Almost exclusive or characteristic of the U.S..
No, it includes US front yards too 😥
Imagine the potential for the reappearance of microbes that “disappeared” tens of thousands of years ago but have actually been dormant under the polar ice.
Good thing I don't have a backyard, Backyards are for the weak!
Ahh. Yes. The stereotype of the weak suburban lawn-owner. 10/10 joke.
But where do you TRAIN for GAINZ!?
@@TommoCarroll he picks up mountain ranges
Your profile pic is magnificent
LeGrandeAutismo Boi ah of course! How else would someone sculpt such impressive guns!?
This video is coming back on the timeline for a good covid reason
When I was in Oregon, someone in a nearby town caught the bubonic plague from a feral cat. This was like 6 years ago? I thought it was eradicated at the time, nope!
Welp..... Poor Texas and California
Fun fact Legionnaires Disease is the reason British sinks have two taps (facets). The cold is for drinking, as it comes straight from the water supply. The hot is usually sitting in a tank for a while.
Don't use the hot to make drink or cook, and your risk is almost zero. :-)
Excellent overview of six (6) dangerous diseases, with reference links to further material.
There was an infestation of brain eating amoebas in Lake Ponchartrain outside of New Orleans a few years ago. Family and friends used to swim in the lake all the time too.
As an obsessive hypochondriac I really appreciate this episode!
#1 - yeah, most Westerners know that prairie dogs carry fleas which carry the bubonic plague. That's one significant reason why it's a very bad idea to allow one's dog to play on or try to dig out the prairie-dog burrows.
Shut the front door!
And the back.
The pork tapeworm is by far the most common of the brain infecting parasites the problem is that if the infection doesn't kill you (which it almost always does) the inflammatory response to the anti parasitic medication just might.
Ooh! You missed some of the worst, that happen to be in my backyard, but also are the things we lab techs hope to never find growing in our cultures. In my area, we have Elizabethkingia and Blastomycosis. I’ve only known one person to survive Blastomycosis.
Ebola is in my backyard
Nooooo
U do not know de wey!
mmm, in the Democratic republic of Congo?
Last year my university very casually let us know that LEGIONELLA WAS FOUND IN WATER TANKS IN THE BUILDINGS!! It was during COVID so very few people were drinking the water, and no one got sick, but god that was terrifying to hear haha
Ah legionnaires disease....Yeah, one of the hospitals in the city of Perth, Western Australia was found to have that in its ENTIRE water system during refurbishment after the section the contractors were working on found asbestos in the roof :/ first the asbestos thing and then that...set back the refurbishment a rather long time while they dealt with it.
My dad got Legionnaire's disease when he was 8, it really messed him up.
Interesting to watch this during covid 19 lockdown 2020
My sister. She is in the backyard AND in the house
ruclips.net/video/ueOqYebVhtc/видео.html
Whoa what shrooms are you on ?
So has your sister mastered quantum superposition?
What drugs are you on?? 😂🤣😅
Check My Playlist run.
Now I've lost faith in my immune system.
I called Naegleria Fowleri being on here. I just knew it.
That’s why I don’t do nasal flushes with tap water.
Here in Australia you can find lovely critters like venomous snakes & spiders in your backyard, but you're more likely to die from an infection after slashing yourself on a broken beer-bottle!
Pittsburgh had a bad outbreak of legionnaires... sadly at the VA hospital
Daily dose of sci show 🙏🏼😊
"You're much more likely to die from lightning than from the plague"
Looks out window at storm😳🤣
This video is a goldmine for death metal band names
Watching in 2020 with additional perspective. This video was, and is, important
Oh us backyards are far away from the netherlands so the dirt I just ate is safe right?
Yeah man! You keep on enjoying that mud + gravel pie! mmm mmm
Most of it exists here too
European francisella is harmless though. Hanta I'm not sure about you should wear a mask when cleaning your garage or cellar. Don't eat strawberries you found in the woods (using them for jam is fine though) or eat raw meat and you won't get a tapeworm problem. Oh forgot legionnaires. If your water heater is set to more than 55°C you should be fine. You'll have to use your faucets regularly though (meaning having hot water run through them).
But eating mice poop is oke here right? I need to know for reasons and quickly.
Ehhh.... i would have gone with "Pathogenic bacteria living in and on you right now.".
Staphylococcus aureus is normal flora for an adult human being.
Meaning that not only are humans covered in the bacteria that cause staph infections, but, in all likelihood, human beings need staphylococcus aureus for some reason.
Escherichia coli lives in the guts of all human beings (specifically the end of the small intestine and in beginning of the large intestine). It is the primary provider of vitamin k in the human diet. Generally speaking, people don't get E.Coli infections from themselves unless there's something else driving the ulceration of of the intestinal tract.
Pseudomonas are a large group of bacteria that live in stagnant water literally everywhere. If you're wondering about your exposure to them, leave a cup of water out overnight. If small bubbles form on the bottom of the cup, that can indicate Pseudomonas. Additionally, humans use various strains of pseudomonas for flavoring and fermenting food. Not all types of pseudomonas for virulent pathogens, but none of them are particularly good as long term guests in our bodies.
Anyway... just a few that are probably worth putting in the list....
Gr8 comment. I've been battling a Pseudamonas sinus infection for over a year. Likely developed 4 years ago hospitalized on ventilator from crush injury. Its a persistent bastard!
@@katiekane5247 Woow , I have been sick for almost 2 mos with upper respiratory infection and a nasty cough that won't go away, doc says he doesn't know what's causing it. Things that make you go hmmm...🤔🤔☺️✝️⚜️
@@CroixdeLorraine the healthcare is just as scary as the illness! Hope you can get answers.
@@katiekane5247 Thanks, me too, especially since I have a history of pneumonia and heart attack, though my heart's in good shape.
☺️☺️✝️⚜️
@@katiekane5247 May I ask what they've done for you so far?
Always interesting, thank you.
We’re pretty sure my dad caught the plague in 1985ish in Arizona but that he wasn’t diagnosed with it because they didn’t suspect it. (But maybe it was SNV. No one else got sick.) It was a severe, mysterious illness that only really could be supported. He still ended up in icu and they thought he was gonna die.
Our family went to fix up an abandoned house with decade old mice poop in it just last month. I’m scared
Bluon rip
In the ocean you may be free from brain-eating amoebas, but you risk running into leg-eating amoebas, popularly known as "sharks".
Nicely done
I contracted tularemia in 2015 and it was easily the most sick I’ve ever been. Thought I was going to die from it. I was misdiagnosed for the first four days. Lost 8 pounds in 48 hours, couldn’t breathe, swollen lymph nodes, and sores on my legs. But once I was correctly diagnosed, I got the correct antibiotics and immediately started to get better
One more seriously dangerous disease that is hiding pretty much everywhere is rabies, so stay vigilant, be careful with animals that seem a bit too friendly, and seek help ASAP if you are bitten. Once you have developed symptoms, the disease is almost always fatal, but before that it is very treatable.
Moritz Gaßan thanks for the heads up
Make more videos about diseases
They're really interesting!
They should make more diseases about videos! Uh, wait... 🤔
So what you're saying is that staying inside or outside, or even eating or drinking water is guaranteed to give me a horrifying disease. Glad to see Sci Show is still teaching handy day-to-day tidbits of knowledge to help us navigate this complicated and terrifying world. And now I've got lightning to worry about. No that is not any comfort
Congratulations Olivia!
I'll never be able to look at my backyard the same T_T
I'm surprised they didn't mention water systems specifically like Flint when it came to Legionnaires’ cases.
Babyboodle interesting point. I don’t know much about that so would really love to learn more
Oh wow, I thought Flint only had issues with lead in the water. Didn't realise it was also legionnaires and coliforms. The wiki page also taught me about THMs (also in Flint), which I knew were a consumption issue, but didn't realise was a dermal absorption issue for swimmers generally.
87 cases in the last 10 years because low chlorine amounts. Most issues came from the lead though
Hanta can also live on a dead mouse far past the point they have fully decomposed.
Congratulations, Olivia!
But are they in Johnny’s sugar?
Kill me : )
There won't be ligma in your backyard since it's been eradicated
What's that
Pray tell us - what is ligma!?
Ligma?
ligma balls
Ligma ballz
man, she perfectly hits the same 3 pitches when starting, mid explanation and at the very last word of a sentence. it's ridiculous XD
Great, now I'm terrified of drinking tap water and getting struck by lightning. Thanks Scishow!
0:38, 0:46, 1:03, 1:12, 1:15, 1:37, 1:50, 10:51 *PLEG*
Do I want to go back outside? Not really...
I know the odds of me getting infected are low, but still...
Seashore Iron I feel you I’m the same way
thanks for the bit on N Fowleri! many of us don't live next to the ocean, tho. definitely boiling the nasal rinse water, and only swimming in flowing water
Wow That was pretty scary. Thanks for the information ! 👍
Note to self,,encourage mother in law to sit in backyard when she visits
Thought rabies was going to make the list for sure. Poor rabies.
Rabies definitely should have.
I agree, and what about tetanus?🤔🤔✝️⚜️
I've noticed that most of these on the list have no vaccine, nor reliable treatment (except Black Plague, which is treatable with antibiotics). That said, both of those are definitely dangerous. Rabies more than Tetanus, with a whopping 100% fatality rate if left untreated (that one person that survived recently had the god of luck working overtime).
That said, I'm hoping most people have the sense to go to their doctor if they step on a nail or get bitten by a raccoon. The ones on this list don't have to use a wound to get in the body, and by the time they start dealing damage it may be too late.
I like how you give ameliorating statistics at the end. Though many still won't be be able to think clearly about them. :-)
As a hypochondriac, I have ALL these symptoms. I'm just now waiting outside to get hit by lightning.
East Coast FTW
Lmao yeah
People dread the snow but I welcome the white death blanket that keeps these microbes at bay.
@@katebattista7400 boi I hate summer and love winter lmao
Sing songy? Every sentence? Sounds like a question?
More microbiology please! Maybe a video about mycobacteria and their funky cell walls.
The Plague. Two confirmed deaths from it last year. There's a huge population of prairie dogs in my area and my cat is a serial killer. I worry about it every time I find his kills in the yard. Ugh
Covid -19: Hold my beer.
I don't know why, but I feel uncomfortable with how she look down with her head but her eyes still look forward
She's reading the script. It looks strange because when people normally look down they LOOK down, not keep their eyes on you. She's doing "natural movements" because when someone just stares unmoving into the camera it's awkward but it doesn't make it better when her head deviates so far from her eyes which are still on the camera.
i love spending my life thinking about all the ways i can die. its the best
R Borovoy It’s a reality that faces us brother. Someday we will all die. It is the way it is. Sometimes I fear death. Sometimes I fear it a little less. Other times I don’t know what to feel. I guess cheated a little bit. Because I’ve had loved ones that have died at a very young age. And it just doesn’t seem fair. But I know you know life isn’t fair. And it never will be. The best thing you can do is try to enjoy every single moment in life. Every minute. Tell your loved ones you love them. Have fun. Take risks. Ask that girl out. Because you never know when the Reaper is going to come knocking at your door.
10:40 But is this doesn't mean that you could drink a lot of salty water and maybe have an impact on this parasite?
Pronunciation is usually fairly good on SciShow, but ‘Sin Nombre’ was super triggering. Seeeeeeeeeen
What if you don't have a backyard? ;)
Thanks for not scaring us too bad. This video is great, and I never thought I'd enjoy a video about pathogens purely for the quality of its content. ☺❤
Jokes on you. HA! I dont have a backyard. Take that sci show.
Is our Olivia pregnant?
Did you really just ask that? Yikes.
Congrats either way.
Logan Mc Look at her face, neck and arms. Do they look "fat"?
I was wondering too, but let's not turn this into The National Enquirer.
I hope not. It sounds serious.
(Pregnant*)
Jokes on you I'm in canada.
Oh, ride your moose back to your maple syrup farm. :)
N. fowleri can’t survive in salt water, but V. vulnificus can. Not to be morbid or anything …
Also, aren’t anthrax spores pretty persistent in soil? Not sure how many back yards those would turn up in, though.
After using a Neti Pot extensively I learned about N. Floweri. Not suprised to see it on this list.
OK is it just me or does she look like she has a future scientist in the making on board? If you are Olivia, Congratulations!!! If not I am truly sorry for this comment and will flagellate myself as a way of showing how very embarrassed I am for asking.
Lol would have been the first comment if I wasn't always doubting what to say online :d
Where I live, the counties air-drop vaccine-treat packets for the wildlife. Mainly for rabies but could be used for other diseases.
Those of us that hunt, particularly feral hog, swine brucellosis and tularemia are concerns. Most wild hogs have ticks so there are tick diseases to be careful about too.
I would say most hogs are not sick with anything that would infect a human. But it's best to be observant and careful.
Olivia is so very nice to watch