From: "Keith Wood", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>My question is: how come bacteria can survive the stresses of an
>explosiona and remain dangerous when most are delicate enough to be killed
>off by mild heat or chemical action?
>
The anthrax bacillus can form spores in times of stress. These are
virtually indestructable - it's been shown for instance that they could
easily suvive a few years in space on a metorite blasted from a planets
surface - and make the mars-earth journey for example.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that bacteria are a just a type of animal
- like mammals. There's considerably more variation across all the
organisms we describe as bacteria than there is for the whole of the rest of
life on the planet put together.
k
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