Murder by Death

Who's excited to real all about the bazillions of microbes that live in, on and around us?  Who amongst us hasn't at some point wished they owned their own zoo?  The good news is: we do!  It's just really, really tiny.

Put away the hand sanitiser and read about how these gazillions of little critters are not only almost entirely harmless, not only beneficial, but, indeed, how we are the ones dependent on them for life.

I've only read the first chapter so far, but it's good.  Really good.  And I only felt the compulsive need to disinfect once, when he mentioned keyboards.  Because contrary to what Yong says, they are a hot mess of infective nastiness.  There might be less than 100 species that are pathogenetic, but I'll bet at least 90 of them are on your average keyboard.

Huggins asks:  have you cleaned your keyboard?