Word: excreta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York and probably in most U.S. cities, pigeons are also the principal carriers of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, or CN. The fungus does not seem to make the birds sick, perhaps because their blood heat is too high, but they drop it all over the place in their excreta...
Krabek reported that the count of coliforms, which constitute a group of bacteria used as an indicator for pollution by human excreta, have been as high as 2400 per 100 milliliters of tea, "iced or otherwise." In comparison, the coliform count of the Charles River is of the order of 20,000/100 mls., while the maximum coliform count of drinking water allowed by Public Health Service standards is one/100...
...Good for Treasure. Ancient rubbish, garbage and human excreta are easily detectable. So are buried walls, whose stones usually have different magnetic properties from the material that covers them. Empty spaces, such as buried tombs, stick out like magnetic sore thumbs. Most conspicuous of all are objects of iron or steel, but the magnetometer does not detect gold and silver, and it will be of little use to treasure seekers...
...numerous that the floor seems alive. When a sick or senile bat falls from the ceiling, the beetles crowd to devour it. The walls are thick with mites, ticks and other bat parasites. The air of the cave is foul with the unpleasant ammoniacal odor of bats, whose excreta comes showering down...