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irisblue

(37,928 posts)
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:17 PM Aug 2025

Kids do dumb stuff or how a kid got throat gonorrhea-from twitter

Yes the parent massively f-ed up.
Enlarge the image & read the 1984 article.



://x.com/jtrebach/status/1960451407691309283


I am very very sure transportation of cultures have been changed
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Kids do dumb stuff or how a kid got throat gonorrhea-from twitter (Original Post) irisblue Aug 2025 OP
Article is from New England Journal of Medicine BTW irisblue Aug 2025 #1
Yikes! ProfessorGAC Aug 2025 #2
It was the 80s. irisblue Aug 2025 #3
I Worked With Microbiologists In The 80s ProfessorGAC Aug 2025 #4

ProfessorGAC

(77,292 posts)
2. Yikes!
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:24 PM
Aug 2025

What the heck is mom doing leaving plated pathogens where a 3 year old can get to it?

ProfessorGAC

(77,292 posts)
4. I Worked With Microbiologists In The 80s
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:43 PM
Aug 2025

The time-frame has nothing to do with my question.
People knew what not to do with pathogens in the 80s.

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