Things that make you go eww!

Sometimes it is fun to gross yourself out. Enjoy these nasty little factoids from The Hypochondriac's Handbook.

• A colony of Salmonella bacteria can quadruple its population - in a warm, moist environment - in less than an hour. The incidence of Salmonella poisoning has increased by 400% in the last 4 years. ~ Yummy! May I have a side of bleach with my chicken? Thanks.
  

• A single pair of underwear on average contains one to ten grams of fecal matter consisting of, among other things, the rotavirus which causes diarrhea and the hepatitus virus. ~You 10+ gram people need to learn how to wipe! You are really romping up the averages!

• 300,000 injuries - including 80,000 deaths - each year occur in hospitals due to negligence. ~ Umm yeah.........tell me again how long you people are in school before becoming doctors and nurses?!

• Children bring their hands to their mouths once every three minutes, on average. The amount of dirt they swallow daily would cover seven kitchen floor tiles. ~Yikeys! I think I just felt my ovaries completely shrivel at that one...

• The world is home to over 3500 species of cockroaches. In some species a female will mate once and remain pregnant the rest of her life. If it doesn't bleed to death, a roach can live for weeks without a head. A cockroach breaks wind every quarter of an hour. ~Roaches fart every 15 minutes?! Keep that in mind people. That is a good back up for when you can't blame it on the dog!

• Flu viruses can live for years in dried spit. ~Who in the hell is drying spit?! Yuck!
  

• Except for one family, all spiders are venomous. Only about 60 species have jaws and fangs that can penetrate human skin. ~See, no need to run screaming from the room anymore....harmless fangs......niiiccee.

Okay, go wash your hands, bleach your undies, and maybe let that poor spider live another day!

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