{"id":724,"date":"2011-05-27T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/2011\/05\/wheres-my-hand-sanitizer.html"},"modified":"2011-05-27T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T22:50:00","slug":"wheres-my-hand-sanitizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2011\/05\/wheres-my-hand-sanitizer.html","title":{"rendered":"Where’s My Hand Sanitizer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is your lucky day – I have some extremly useful, likely life-saving, information to share with you. Everyone isn’t crazy enough to go to medical school, so it’s a good thing there are bloggers like me to save you from the deadly microbes of the Earth that only the board-reviewing med students know about.
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Things You’re Doing That Could Kill\/Seriously Injure You:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Petting Prairie Dogs<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Yersinia pestis<\/a>, AKA – Causative Agent of the Black Death<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 Grocery Shopping<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Those nifty mister things<\/a> in the produce aisle? Deadly.
If you must grocery shop, wear a Legionella<\/a>-protective mask.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Gardening<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Sporothrix-induced ascending lymphangitis<\/a> waiting to happen. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Owning Cats<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Toxoplasma gondii laden poo.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Feeding Pigeons<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Other than being generally disgusting, they carry Cryptococcus<\/a> neoformans,
which can give you a nasty meningitis if your immune system’s not in tip-top shape.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Sooooo, med student\/doctor\/microbiologist\/nerd friends, what’s your favorite microbe? I know there are a TON of slightly amusing germy-things I didn’t choose to illustrate here, tell me the ones that have stuck with you!<\/i><\/b><\/span>

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Images courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons: p_a_h<\/a>, Andrew in Durham<\/a>, erix!<\/a>, eviltomthai<\/a>, eggybird<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is your lucky day – I have some extremly useful, likely life-saving, information to share with you. Everyone isn’t crazy enough to go to medical school, so it’s a good thing there are bloggers like me to save you from the deadly microbes of the Earth that only the board-reviewing med students know about. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,37],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}