I report this story only because of a life-long aversion to ‘down on the farm” aphorisms about dirt’s salutory powers. These many statements were paeans to bacteria. The idea of sitting in a public hot tub, whirlpool, steam room or sauna is anathema. For a world beyond anathema, there is always the mud bath.
I have taken heat for my ‘off-the-wall’ contentions of how humans needlessly place themselves at risk vis-a-vis rampaging microbes. Each year, my beliefs are borne out my modern research. Stories like this remind be of those great illustrators at MAD Magazine. Mort Drucker and Jack Davis had a knack for drawing pizzas from which live tentacles sprouted. Be warned that those of us with imagination and/or balking stomachs should think twice before reading the Reuters story.