So much for the "pure as the driven snow" concept...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13523502

 

[toddnbecka]

Interesting, I never would have imagined snow was a bacterial disease... :lol:

 

[UNCLERUCKUS]

I REMEMBER MY MOM ALWAYS SAID NOT TO EAT SNOW CUZ IT WOULD MAKE YOU SICK. I REMEMBER LOVING ICE CYCLES UNTIL I GOT A SORE THROAT ONCE.....I GUESS MOM WAS RIGHT, LOL AGAIN!!

 

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Bacteria does not equal disease.

You have many more in your body than you do cells numbering thousands of strains/species - literally could not live without them. Far as I know the type identified in snow is benign to higher animals, which would include almost everyone affilated with this site or the CCA.

 

[mchambers]

Inquiring minds want to know

higher animals, which would include almost everyone affilated with this site or the CCA.

Is this leading up to a New Jersey joke? (Before you answer, bear in mind that my mother was from New Jersey.)

 

[londonloco]

Is this leading up to a New Jersey joke? (Before you answer, bear in mind that my mother was from New Jersey.)

Um, former Jerseyite here....

 

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Never.

Is this leading up to a New Jersey joke? (Before you answer, bear in mind that my mother was from New Jersey.)

Tragedy is no laughing matter.

 

[Leffler817]

...but the most important thing left out is, "watch out where the huskies go"...