Anonymous #1 2w

WAIT ACTUALLY??

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Anonymous daisy_ 2w

Yea, frfr Consider: where would a bacteria have found rust to live in for millions of years before we started forging iron?

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Anonymous #1 2w

lowkey i feel like ive been lied to all my life

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Anonymous #2 2w

We think of “stepping on a rust nail” with tetanus, and the rust stands out, but its the stepping on the nail (therefore on the ground) thats the problem

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Anonymous #1 2w

No it lives in rust too

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Anonymous #3 2w

I know horses also carry it too

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Anonymous #1 2w

Isn’t it that tetanus thrives in the type of wound from rusty nails too? Deep puncture wounds that don’t bleed

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Anonymous #4 2w

Yeah it likes anaerobic environments

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Anonymous #1 2w

Ok I’m going to trust my microbio prof

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Anonymous #1 2w

Rust can create anerobic microsites where tetanus can be in, there’s also increased surface area

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Anonymous #3 2w

Ohhhhh, I thought you were saying tetanus feeds on/is nourished by rust, not that it can provide a good breeding ground. Its the geometric properties of the rust, not the chemical.

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