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> a simple cut that today we would not even think twice about could prove fatal from infection

maybe .. most mammals do not get infections from an ordinary cut.. it is humans that are uniquely weak that way

source: retired medical surgeon



My cat almost died from an infected wound from the bite of another cat, so maybe it depends on the wound.


Expert fallacy.

Nothing in your career particularly informed you of non-human mammal infection rates, unless you moonlighted as a veterinarian.


That's why I said `could', instead of `would'.




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