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Story time! (1/11) time to tell you all how I fell in love with #Microbiology #MyMicroStory #BlackInMicro
I grew up on a small farm in the rural South, and the first time that I became truly fascinated with microbes was when mad cow disease (a.k.a. bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE) began to spread to humans (in the late 90s, I believe. (2/11)
We had about 30 head of cattle and my parents began to freak out and sold them all. They weren't sure how to describe the cause, but they knww it was some sort of infectious agent. I was both terrified and fascinated! (3/11)
