• snoons@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Some staph strains produce a protein that makes you itch. They are non-motile so you move them around when you scratch.

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        2 days ago

        At a certain point, you’d essentially be feeding a super-staph infection the now useless antibiotics as a supplement for it to grow lmao.

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        3 days ago

        They’d have to be narrow-band and topical, but technically yes. You’d still smell though… afaik lol