–Dr Dipon Sharmah Every time I begin my microbiology class, I ask this question to my students: When you hear the word microbe – like bacteria, fungi or viruses – what kind of image, pleasant or unpleasant, comes to mind? More than 90 percent of the time, the answer is unpleasant. After the 2020 pandemic, the answer has been consistently unpleasant. Recently my students celebrated International Microorganism Day, which falls on 17th September. T…
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