Dirty nukes? How about dirty ice!

[widebody911]

Might want to re-consider fast food drinks.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?floc=ns-tos-toda-h-04&name=fte/dirtyice/dirtyice

The bacteria in the ice included fecal coliform or E. coli, which can only come from the feces of warm-blooded animals.

[bryanthompson]

Did you happen to catch the episode of MythBusters where they tested toothbrushes at varying distances from the toilet for the same germs? They found fecal coliform on every toothbrush sample, even the one stored outside of the bathroom entirely. Gross, but ice-cubes and toothbrush germs are almost at the bottom of my list of things to worry about

[Nathans_Dad]

That's not really all that surprising. Employee goes to the bathroom, doesn't wash his hands, fills the ice machine, there you go.

It is a little interesting that the bacteria were so numerous considering that the water for the ice is chlorinated which should inhibit growth. I did a similar experiment in my college micro class where I plated swabs from drinking fountains and there was surprisingly little growth.

Our bodies are great seas of bacteria and humans are dirty animals. The sooner our society gets over this idea that bacteria are bad or dirty the better. Everyone wants to "sanitize" their kitchen or whatever.

Here's one that will blow your mind, some studies are suggesting that diseases like Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease may be because the food we eat is TOO clean. Perhaps we need a little dirtiness in our lives to keep things working well. The idea is that there are cells that live in the wall of the colon that are there to fight off infections. When we began sterilizing all our food and focusing on hygeine those cells never saw infections. They got bored. So, they decide to attack whatever the hell they like.

The dirtiest wound you can receive is a bite from a human mouth. Chew on that while you have your lunch.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Actually the Gila monster is supposed to be dirtier.

[scottmandue]

Okay... I'm off to kiss a pretty girl on the butt

hmmmm they say a dog's mouth is cleaner than a humans... and look where dogs put their mouths!

[slakjaw]

SWEET!!!!!

I sat down to lunch here at work. During my lunch period I usually cruse PPOT and I opened this thread.

Was not too hungry after that and threw it away.

[Rikao4]

Until a few years ago, most common stomach ulcers where NOT treated with antibiotics, just the current meds ie Tagamet and such.Most of these cultures taken came up neg. for bacteria. A power fritz caused an incubator to go high temp and bingo,we have growth.Solved the common recurrence of this type ulcer that had Dr's baffled.
Rika

[yellowline]

Score one for those who don't drink soda.

Milkshakes all the way at a fast food joint. Now we can discuss what's in those.

[red-beard]

"And don't forget those frosty shakes...straight from polluted lakes, McDonalds is your kind of place!!!!"

[EdT82SC]

Originally posted by yellowline
Score one for those who don't drink soda.

Milkshakes all the way at a fast food joint. Now we can discuss what's in those.

When I was a kid I worked at a McDonalds. The store became infested with cockroaches. We saw a couple roaches around, but nothing big until the shake machine stopped working. It turns out that dozens of cockroaches found their way into the vat of shake mix, got sucked up into the machine, and clogged up the whole thing. People had been drinking milkshake that had been filtered through dead roach boddies for several days.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by Rikao4
Until a few years ago, most common stomach ulcers where NOT treated with antibiotics, just the current meds ie Tagamet and such.Most of these cultures taken came up neg. for bacteria. A power fritz caused an incubator to go high temp and bingo,we have growth.Solved the common recurrence of this type ulcer that had Dr's baffled.
Rika

You mean H. Pylori? Wasn't there a Nobel prize finally issued for that?

http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2005/press.html

Yep. Not only that but I think the "human volunteer" in this portion:

The link between Helicobacter pylori infection and subsequent gastritis and peptic ulcer disease has been established through studies of human volunteers, antibiotic treatment studies and epidemiological studies.

was one of the researchers...