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It’s called “infectious dose”, and it’s largely about probabilities. See this question that I asked a while ago (and associated answers) on Biology SE: https:/
by k_sze 8y ago
It’s called “infectious dose”, and it’s largely about probabilities.
See this question that I asked a while ago (and associated answers) on Biology SE: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5442/are-all-known-germs-benign-in-small-enough-quantities-i-e-why-do-we-wash-our-h https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5442/are-all-kno...
EDIT: added missing URL.
- Symmetry 8y agoApparently for Anthrax the LD1, the dose expected to kill 1% of the population exposed to it, is just 1 to 3 spores. So it's possisble that woman downwind of the post office might have just inhaled a single spore. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/anthrax http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/anthrax