WILTIMS #192: Carrier has arrived

Staph. aureus from my nose!

Some weirdly stained microbe from my throat

Only 2-3 of the 23 people in our small micro lab should be nasal carriers of the sometimes dangerous but hopefully harmless Staphylococcus aureus species of bacteria. And I was one of the lucky few! Woohoo? You can see my beautiful clustered spheres in the first of my three microscope cellphone pictures on the left.

Another unknown microbe from my throat

S. aureus is the same microbe that can become MRSA, the deadly antibiotic-resistant infection often picked up in hospitals.

TIL: Plague is passed on by flea throw up from when the rapidly multiplying bacteria block the flea's mouth-straw-appendage and it is forced to cough to clear its throat-straw-thingy at the beginning of the next feeding. This transmits the plague-causing bacteria to the next host.