Yes, I've read lots of fun things about the various bacteria living on us that don't do anything under normal circumstances. I read somewhere that some people even have colonies of staph virus living up their nose, and that one is a lot more serious because I think staph is one of those ones that is linked to the antibiotic resistant infection bacteria, which I think may be some sort of staph as well, irrc.
Certainly brings new meaning to when our parents tell us not to pick our noses. 'Don't pick your nose or your arm could get flesh eating disease and have to be cut off!' Eek.
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Group B Strep is a bacteria many of us have on our body, but it doesn't do anything under normal circumstances.
Curettage means they manually extracted my placenta.
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Certainly brings new meaning to when our parents tell us not to pick our noses. 'Don't pick your nose or your arm could get flesh eating disease and have to be cut off!' Eek.