• Question: Is there any bacteria, diseases or germs that have grossed you out?

    Asked by text520haut to Kip H, Katharine G, John CC, allysonmcintyre on 19 Dec 2024.
    • Photo: Kip Heath

      Kip Heath answered on 19 Dec 2024:

      Not especially. I’ve worked with human body parts and fluids since I was 18 years old. But – there is a bacteria called Proteus and it absolutely stinks! It’s the only one that has ever made me feel sick.

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    melissaupjohn commented on :

    I find ticks really gross – when I worked in southern African some of the horses I worked with had more than a hundred ticks attached to their skin underneath their tail, yuk!
    Intestinal worms can be gross too – particularly when they appear in the faeces (poo) and they’re still alive and moving. Occasionally (thankfully not very often in this country) if a horse has severe colic (abdominal pain) and requires an operation to fix the problem, when you open up the intestines there are large numbers of worms inside, blocking the intestines.