• Question: have you ever gotten seriously ill from your work?

    Asked by bethanmdh1 to Simon on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Simon Park

      Simon Park answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Not directly from the bacteria that I work with but a few years ago a bacterium called Streptococcus mitis decided to set up home on my aortic heart valve. I spent a month in hospital but thanks to penicillin I survived.

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