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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Just in the last few months I’ve read two stories about horrific infections from browsing around in soil gloveless - first the worm in the woman’s brain from foraging, then the recently published report of the Sydney woman who got blackleg disease from gardening soil - a bacteria normally found in livestock which was eating her bowels up and nearly killed her last year but for a new mode of treatment.

    I don’t care what people say about getting a bit o’ dirt in your bowels, I’d rather not have the other stuff as well thanks.