A worm is just a friend you haven't met yet

Viruses & other bugs, oh my! Not an expert o7 ●●●●●●● Worm ◇ BSc. ◇ any

[nuclearloop]

You Must Shed it

[gracesmicroscope]

Otodectes ear mites from a feline. Adult mites and eggs present.

[lauraciello]

I made a pride flag out of free bug stock photos.

Feel free to use it! 🌈🌈🌈🌈

[sanctus-ingenium]

nereid

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[doberbutts]

Another point that reminds me of my privilege in this world is when I think about the fact that we sell the cure for tuberculosis to people to give to their dogs for a UTI. Millions of people literally die every year because they can't access this medication and I'm giving it to people to shove down their dogs' throats to make them stop peeing in the house. It's one of the more expensive antibiotics and people always whine about the price but then it's not their daughter they have to watch slowly suffocate as bacteria turns her lungs into swiss cheese. It's not their father that coughs and coughs and coughs until he's spitting up blood.

The deadliest infectious disease in human history is cured by the same packet of chewable tabs individually packed in foil. It comes in beef flavor so your dog won't resist taking its meds as much. It's like a hundred bucks for 30 tablets on pretty much any pet pharmacy.

It makes me think about medicine scarcity and how it's all fake in order to get enough capital that you can have individuals with higher net worth than entire countries. And in the mean time, hundreds of millions of people are dead because they don't drive the bottom line.

[everydaywomble]

"kill them with kindness" WRONG! the thing. ❄️🌨️🗻🗻🚁🚁🔫🐕🐾🐾🏘️🧍🧍🐕‍🦺🐶🧍🧍🏘️🚁🤠🇳🇴💀🥀🧊🧊🚁🔪🛌🐕🏠🐕🐕🐕🛑🧠🫀🫁👁️🦴🦷🦠🔥🔥🧍🧍🔥🔥🎒🌨️❄️✋🧎✋🔥🧍🧍🔥🔥🔥🔥🚙🧍🧍🐕🪓🚁🪓📻📻🪓🩸🅰️🅾️🆎🅱️🛋️ 🩸🩸🕶️🔫🧑‍🔬🔥🔥💉❄️❄️👖❄️❄️🧨🧨🫀☠️💪💪👄🩸🩸🔥🔥🔥👤🕷️😧🔥🔥🪢🩸🧵🪡😎👍🌿😮🩸🩸🩸👁️🩸🩸🔥🔥🔥🕶️⚰️☠️🔥🧊❄️🌨️🛸🧨🧨🧨💀🧍🍾🧍

[ptr-sqloint]

Poisoning - Sickness - Invasion

[gushism]

headache plate

[j-tee]

Bug party

[odetoscavengers]

Parasitoid

[astrovampz]

Hey me and my parasite saw you from across the bar and we really like your vibe

[calicotisane]

Toy surgeon who performs toy surgery on toy people (main artistic pursuit is inventing procedures)

[aphotisms]

the xenomorph from alien drawn in bacterial culture on agar plates

[tainaronian]

my bacteria….

[ptr-sqloint]

[ptr-sqloint]

[fishparasite]

have you guys met my girlfriend yet