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Tummy bugs may have deep-sea ancestors: experts
Reuters ^
| 07/02/2007
| unknown
Posted on 07/03/2007 12:20:37 PM PDT by Redcitizen
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some of the nastiest bacteria that thrive in the human gut and make us sick may have evolved from hardy ancestors living deep under the sea, a group of Japanese scientists found.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bacteria; science
The headline reads as if experts are the ancestors of the bacteria.
So this is the origin of bad tofu. =)
To: Redcitizen
C’mon, someone post a pic of Rosie or Hildabeast.
To: Redcitizen
There have been some varieties of tummy bugs that have made me think I was barfing from the bottom of the Mariannes Trench, so this theory may have some merit...
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posted on
07/03/2007 12:43:14 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Redcitizen
To: martin_fierro
At first I thought that was the “AFLAK” duck
Which, by the way, would make a GREAT commercial
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posted on
07/03/2007 12:57:08 PM PDT
by
kidd
To: Frank_Discussion
Must have been the Mariannes Mayo that went bad.
=)
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posted on
07/03/2007 12:58:30 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Grond! Grond! Grond!)
To: Redcitizen
may have evolved another leap of faith alert..
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posted on
07/03/2007 12:58:45 PM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: martin_fierro
Yep! that’s the bad stuff.
By the way, how did you post that?
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posted on
07/03/2007 12:59:35 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Grond! Grond! Grond!)
To: martin_fierro
Should we have the Space Special, or the Space Soup?
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posted on
07/03/2007 1:02:16 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the round in the chamber.)
To: Redcitizen
Nah.... can't be the raw fish they eat.......
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posted on
07/03/2007 1:07:38 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
To: kidd
At first I thought that was the “AFLAK” duck Is it not?
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:09:01 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
To: Redcitizen
Gives a whole new meaning to the idea of blue flu, does it not?
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posted on
07/03/2007 6:16:25 PM PDT
by
Dysart
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