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Pharmaceutical Chemist. Here to talk about drugs/science/music/medicine with a side of geopolitics and open source intelligence.
Yet another Twitter refugee.
This is my best friend, Spice. When Twitter broke she actually went outside and rolled around in the grass (and then ate and puked some of it) instead of immediately switching to mastodon.
Spice is smarter than I am.
Confession: I’ve sort of ignored mastodon in hopes that Twitter would implode. But… it looks like that hope may not pan out.
Since basically all functionality seems to be locked out over there, I am back over here to cast my musings into the void. I suspect I’m not the only one.
Anyway, here’s my cat.
An interesting feature of O157:H7 is the production of Shiga-like toxin, originally discovered in another severe gastrointestinal pathogen (Shigella) known for causing classical dysentery.
It’s been said that through history dysentery has killed more soldiers than the actual battles.
These are not trivial infections and weaponizing them is not a technically difficult task.
