Curbing The Populace

[mik3cap]

Somehow or other, bacteria and other tiny organisms manage to find food. Usually they just evolve the ability to eat whatever they can find in abundance. Hence, flesh-eating superbacteria... which will have billions and billions served!

Nature always finds a way.

Comments

[xspliffx.livejournal.com]

that's what happened to my mom, via a spider bite in our very own backyard.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Your mom got flesh eating bacteria???????

[xspliffx.livejournal.com]

sort of, yes. (http://www.news-medical.net/?id=5191)

almost lost her leg, and could have died.

[bonisagus.livejournal.com]

That was probably cellular necrosis caused by a severe reaction to the spider venom. It can happen when people get bitten by Brown Recluse Spiders, I believe.

[xspliffx.livejournal.com]

something like that, yeah.

it's on the rise, i heard. big time.

[msbutterpecan.livejournal.com]

Uhm....gross?

[karmadrome.livejournal.com]

This is funny because, well, who doesn't find flesh-eating bacteria funny.

Wait, that's not why I find it amusing. It's because I was having this exact conversation with Sean the other night. We were discussing the many, many ways in which the human population might be reduced, and we agreed that "disease" is at the top of the charts, since there are so many, tightly-packed, delicious hoo-mans wandering around.

Great minds etc.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

One of these days I will make it down to Austin and we shall hang. kitteridge has family there, so I'm sure to make it out that way eventually.