I have always been a scientist. I thought. Bacteria, germs, viruses... they were all 'normal' to me. I NEVER thought I would have a problem handling infectious stuff if ever called upon to deal with them. I'm not.
Today at work, I 'got' to sample test 28 infectious Human Tuberculosis Samples. Tuberculosis kills people. Needless to say I will not be going into a Bio-safety level 4 lab ever in my life. If tuberculosis is enough to give me the gajeebers then I'm sure Ebola, smallpox, and Marburg would do me in.
E.coli I can handle, but that's about it. It's a good thing we don't get infectious samples here very often!
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