My new collection

I love thos things! Plush microbes

I have HIV and smallpox... Hoping to get some more

You know how before you click on the thread if you hover the pointer over the title, you get a quick preview of what's written in the original post? I saw "I have flesh-eating bacteria and mad cow disease!" :hihi:

My biology teacher collects those. I think she has all of them by now!

llamas said:

I love thos things! Plush microbes

I have HIV and smallpox... Hoping to get some more

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I hope to get more soon too, hopefully sometimes this year lol.

legomaniac89 said:

You know how before you click on the thread if you hover the pointer over the title, you get a quick preview of what's written in the original post? I saw "I have flesh-eating bacteria and mad cow disease!" :hihi:

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AzFishKid said:

My biology teacher collects those. I think she has all of them by now!

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Cool! I would want them all too one day. Makes a great learning tool, my Parasitology teacher had plush parasites and animals and show us things using them. Always helped me remember things when she did.

I've never seen these before, but they are adorable!

They need one for Campylobacter jejuni (my bug of interest)

legomaniac89 said:

You know how before you click on the thread if you hover the pointer over the title, you get a quick preview of what's written in the original post? I saw "I have flesh-eating bacteria and mad cow disease!" :hihi:

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I did the same thing... several times... before I decided if I really wanted to open this thread or not ROFL

Wait, mad cow disease is not anything alive (no DNA or RNA) so it shouldn't be in the collection?

It's a prion I believe.

Yeah...Viruses aren't alive...


Very cool though! I will stick with my aquatic plant/fish collection though

Darkblade48 said:

They need one for Campylobacter jejuni (my bug of interest)

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They do!! Feel free to order whenever lol, but I'm not sure if they ship to Japan!

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/diarrhea.html

mistergreen said:

Wait, mad cow disease is not anything alive (no DNA or RNA) so it shouldn't be in the collection?

It's a prion I believe.

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Yea, but I picked it cuz it was cute! XD

Caton said:

Yeah...Viruses aren't alive...


Very cool though! I will stick with my aquatic plant/fish collection though

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A prion isn't even a virus. It's a crazy protein that replicates with no DNA. Viruses have DNA or RNA.

mistergreen said:

Wait, mad cow disease is not anything alive (no DNA or RNA) so it shouldn't be in the collection?

It's a prion I believe.

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mistergreen said:

A prion isn't even a virus. It's a crazy protein that replicates with no DNA. Viruses have DNA or RNA.

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Correct. BSE is caused by a prion; essentially a "rogue" protein.

lol *edit*

Think Geek carries them all
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/

Let's try to keep things on the PG side for the sake of others.

My sister wants my Flesh Eating Bacteria and my Mad Cow Disease I guess it is more infectious than I expected.

Im afraid to even ask-Im at work and have Websense so I cant look--not sure I want to??

Don't worry it's nothing bad at all, but it can wait til you're at home or something.