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As I mentioned this years ago here I once found microscope slides in my grandpa basement labeled small pox. He was a doctor/ scientist. Everyone said that the s
by 14 5y ago
As I mentioned this years ago here I once found microscope slides in my grandpa basement labeled small pox. He was a doctor/ scientist. Everyone said that the slides would contain inactive virus that were of no threat. I’ve long gotten rid of them because I haven’t owned a microscope in ages and with the internet can always look up small pox there.
- programmarchy 5y agoYou can see smallpox with a microscope? I thought viruses were too small to be seen except by electron microscopes.
- 14 5y agoGood question. I never tried to look at them under the microscope so I have no clue what they showed. But I have no doubt there was a slide of small pox since after my grandpa died we found all sorts of weird shit in his basement. Big jar of mercury, giant moths, frogs, strange bugs in jars of formaldehyde and some even weirder shit.
- dogma1138 5y agoOutside of an electron microscope not really, they are in the femtometer range.