20 years later…
Kid: Dad, why did everybody turn into cat-zombies?
Dad: They caught Dipshit Nigel Disease, son.
Way to ruin that guy’s Plague Inc run, man.
Correct me if I’m wrong…. But isn’t finding a new bacteria rather common for people who look at bacteria?
Yes.
For a long time identifying bacteria required growing them on different media. If then bacteria didn’t grow on the media, we didn’t know what it was. However for most pathogenic bacterium we did figure out how to culture them.
Then molecular biology advanced to a level where we can amplify and sequence a single bacterium’s DNA. This has led to a continuous stream of new species discoveries from different environments.
Finding a new pathogenic bacteria for humans is still a rare discovery.
If that happened to me, and I got rid of it, I’d ask if the infection could be named after me.
I want it to be remembered that I won.
Really? You want an annoying disease to be named after you? Like “fuck me i got the stoy today”
I would want them to let me choose the name.
Nah. They would name it Spspspspspiosis.
That sounds more like the name of the treatment than of the bacteria itself.
For science!
🫱😾
Sure, he gave permission for them to publish the paper about him. But, did he give them permission to address him solely as “48 year old obese man?”
That is literally adding insult to injury.
The most important part is missing: Did he got to name the bacteria?
Catman
… What’s the meme here?
Involves a cat, well known meme vehicle for millennia
Wow, a new unknown bacteria! Probably two pills of any generic antibiotic and it’s gone! Oh no, let me never pet a stray ever again.
Last year one guy in England went outside for a walk, slipped and fell hitting his head against the pavement – he ended up in a hospital. Me, I now do not recommend anyone in the world ever leaves the premises of their apartment.
Me, I now do not recommend anyone in the world ever leaves the premises of their apartment.
Based on my experiences, it’s not a good idea and should be avoided if possible.
Read the article, he was on a cocktail of generic antibiotics and still needed iv vancomycin
