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Kind of wary about putting a sample of Malaria-infected fluid up to my face like that. But mostly I'm jealous that nothing I'm working on stands to have a tenth
by jessedhillon 13y ago
Kind of wary about putting a sample of Malaria-infected fluid up to my face like that. But mostly I'm jealous that nothing I'm working on stands to have a tenth the impact this could make.
- eru 13y agoYou could put the camera close to the lens, instead of your face there.
- midas007 13y agoExactly. And archive those images. The diagnosis may be mechanical-turked off somewhere else or kept for EMR/EHR.
- pja 13y agoIf it's under a microscope slide cover then you're pretty safe - the fluid is sandwiched between the slide & the cover and isn't going to go anywhere. (You don't normally try and image free standing droplets that could run off for a couple of reasons: Except for the clearest liquids they'd be too optically thick to see anything useful and you'd have problems focusing on objects that can move in the z direction as well as laterally with respect to the lens.)
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- jnbiche 13y agoPlus, malaria isn't transmitted via fecal-oral or respiratory route, so holding it up to your face isn't terribly risky. Taking the sample is much more risky, since there are sharps involved. Now, if it were cholera...