sundray@lemmus.orgcake to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoEveryone thinks we're grosslemmus.orgimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1550arrow-down114file-text
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minus-squareFiniteBanjolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·9 months agoNothing that lives in sewage is clean, least not the things that clean themselves with their mouths. What makes something unclean is not dirt, it’s the pathogens.
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·9 months agoExposure empowers the immune system so the “dirty” rat is likely to cary less pathogens than many people 😬
minus-squareFiniteBanjolinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoThey’re more likely to be immune than us to what they carry.
Nothing that lives in sewage is clean, least not the things that clean themselves with their mouths. What makes something unclean is not dirt, it’s the pathogens.
Exposure empowers the immune system so the “dirty” rat is likely to cary less pathogens than many people 😬
They’re more likely to be immune than us to what they carry.