Consider the fungi including mushrooms, rusts, molds and many disease causing organisms.

Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms bacteria, viruses and fungi.

Here you see a typical cucumber leaf that turned actually from green to black because of a black fungus, sooty mold, which is covering it.

At the end of 1987, the scope of the biological weapons work was further expanded and research into additional bacterial agents, such as Clostridium perfringens and fungal toxins, such as trichothecene mycotoxins, was carried out.

And the last thing, I bring back this nudibranch.

One of the interesting things about these particular guys is that they're in the actinomycete and streptomycete groups of the bacteria, which is where we get most of our antibiotics.

That's a 12 foot long giant sixgill shark.

Turtles eat it. It gets in the gills of fish.

Because farming takes place outdoors and in dirt, such contamination is a fact of life. Over the centuries, the main culprit in mass food poisoning often has been contamination of unprocessed crops by fungal toxins a risk that is exacerbated when insects attack food crops, opening wounds that allow fungi (molds) to get a foothold.

Every year, innumerable packaged food products worldwide are withheld or recalled from the market due to the presence of all natural contaminants like insect parts, toxic molds, bacteria, and viruses. Because farming takes place outdoors and in dirt, such contamination is a fact of life.

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Tough!

OK. So, the patient was treated then with a third generation cephalosporin antibiotic and doxycycline, and on day three, it didn't help she had progressed to acute failure.

The remnants of biological munitions which Iraq declared had been filled with Bacillus anthracis, botulinum toxin and aflatoxin were provided to the inspectors for verification.

What bad luck!

I'm unlucky.

Sucker.

CalamityJoe.

Diagonal Disaster

Oh, that's too bad.

Take thy fortune.

Oh, my aching back!

The bastards.

Things are not that easy.

Too bad.

It'll be bad luck.

So this scavenger comes in, which is a giant sixgill shark.

I don't know what this kind of stuff will do in their gills.

He is shit out of luck.

He is shit out of luck.

Unfortunate.

Goddamn rotten luck.

Well, I'll be damned.

My hand's darkening.

Oh, why do we suffer so?

I really am unlucky!

That's too bad,

All right. Granted, me ol' cock.

Don't! It's bad luck!

I had a bit of bad luck today.

I really had a bit of bad luck.

Just a poor man down on his luck.

Oh, bad luck. Oh!

Likewise, commercial fishing frequently depends on gill nets walls of fine netting in which fish become snared, often by the gills. They may suffocate in the net, because, with their gills constricted, they cannot breathe.

It won't shock you, I assume... to learn that I am a woman... who has seen a great deal of life.