Yes, I am a tad off the Los Osos sewer topic here. Yes, I could do a fancy lariat maneuver to capture a rationale for writing about this, but I will leave that to your fertile imagination readers!
There was a recycled article in our Trib. today from the Washington Post. Apparently the treatment of a very serious human bacterial infection is to introduce the healthy poop of a non-infected individual into the infected person's gut. Screened individuals donate poop, sometimes five working days a week, making $40 a pop with frequency bonuses for up to $13,000 a year! You will have to read the article to see how this is done, and who qualifies on both ends of this .
Anyway, the Post's article has a nifty poop chart showing you the size of poop in relation to the number of ill patients treated! Fortunately, for more squeamish viewers, the containers of "product" shown in the article are kept frozen, so the frost coating pretty much makes the content of the bottles indistinguishable from that of a hearty bean soup.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/29/you-can-earn-13000-a-year-selling-your-poop/
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