Why Unchecked Bacterial Infections Kill
Bacteria growing on a petri dish
Here’s a interesting fact to consider next time you cut yourself or have a cold: A single bacterium doubles every 30 minutes. Allowed to multiply unchecked, this single bacterium becomes roughly 100 trillion bacteria. To put this in some perspective, Lauren Sompanyrac, PhD and author of “How the Immune System Works” writes that when growing bacteria in culture, a 1 litre culture that contains 1 trillion bacteria is so dense that you can’t see through it.
In a laboratory setting, this same single bacterium growing in culture for one day would yield a thick barrel of bacterial stew of about 100 litres!! Since our blood volume is about 5 litres, it is easy to see how one bacteria could quickly kill us if our immune system didn’t work.
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