No, instead we are coerced into carrying portable petri dishes, spreading bacteria, and no doubt, some sickness and death.

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The samples were contained in petri dishes and the bacteria multiplied within 48 hours, so much so that they became visible to the naked eye as 300 to 400 tiny dots, Godard said.

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