The movie Contagion premiered this week. So did a study attempting to count all the living species of life on this earth. With insects making up 85% of that count, they would seem to be the winners. But the President of the American Society for Microbiologists sent us an email today, saying, “The microbes beg to differ”!
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madame scientist's not-so-mad musings 
How could you forget the microbes? It’s not like they’re a zombie virus or something. Viruses aren’t actually “alive” so to speak, so I could understand the disclosure of that classification.
To write the obvious, that’s assuming, of course, that quantity wins. 🙂