Article in Scientific American via Mark Thoma. Very interesting. Ants which pick up an infection (a moldy parasite, in the case of this experiment) are not quarantined; rather the other ants in the colony help clean up the infection. By reducing the dose of the infection, there's increase chance of surviving on the part of the initially infect ants, and the rest of the colony has a little bit of an immune boost.
I say if viruses and bacteria are going to survive our attempts to eradicate them through hand sanitizer, we should fight back and survive their attacks. Show them who's boss.
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