December 01, 2022
There are about 38,000,000,000,000 bacterial cells in the human body, roughly equal to the number of human body cells. Their combined weight is about seven ounces.
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What Was Life Like Before We Knew About Germs?
“It was the summer of 1880. It was August. It stank to high heaven. The sewers had been uncorked, and all the filth came out in a flood. All manner of waste was on display.” So reads an article in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro. Purporting to be written by novelist and critic Émile Zola
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