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you can go on a smoke break and not smoke (do it, miss out on work, just be a bit farther away from the people actually smoking if you don't want second hand lung cancer :D)

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Mystery snails (those aquatic snails that you get for like, a dollar at pet smart or something) actually like to have a bit of land! and don't get them if you want a cleaner thank, they'll probably just add more to the bioload

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Random facts/rants about illnesses!

Rabies is *not* 100% fatal. a handful of people have survived it!

Speaking of rabies, roughly only 1% of bats have rabies, though still be careful!

Opposums rarely actually contract rabies because of low body temperatures!

If you suspect being bit by a rabid animal, go get the shots within 24 hours, 72 if your pushing it, although it can take *years* it can also take days (4 days to 8 years, very wide range) so go get the shot if you got bit by a potentially rabid animal.

You know what is 100% fatal? Prions!

Prions are misfolded proteins that can (and almost certainly will) transform other proteins to also be misfolded

it may take years, but it can and *will* kill you.

it has several names/forms, in Cervidae (deer, moose, elk, reindeer) there's CWD or Chronic wasting disease. in cows its called BSE or Mad cow disease. it can be gotten by cows!

Sheep and Goats (Scrapie), Mink (TME), and Cats (FSE) can all get their own forms as well

If im reading it correctly, all animals can get it? might be reading that wrong lol

Prions are very, very, very hard to kill. you need extreme heat (900f 482c for extended time or higher. go for higher.) and can be frozen for a long while. they can survive out of a living organism.

Humans can get it! there's Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia, Kuru.

most of these you just can get because your body hates you, but Kuru? that's gotten from eating human brains. so uh... don't eat humans? or the brains of any creature really. or do, just don't complain if you get prions!