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kiri

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3. Nobody knows how this happens

Reply to kiri (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 11:40 PM

Dec 2018

It is awesome. A fetus has none of these bacteria in its gut. Within 4 hours (!) after born, it has a brazillian, gadzilon of them for the rest of its life.

Nobody knows how this happens. {Cf: I don't know how this happens.} Speculations are via skin contact, mouth, breathing.

The "royal we" is entirely accurate.

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