THE BATTLE OF

DR. PUTRID
PuMR.
PATHOGEN &
MEDICINE MAN

One sunny day in the park 2 friends were re-united after 15 long years. They were good
high school friends and Matt had just moved to Harrington last year. They could not
believe their eyes! They both had changed so much and were nearly unrecognizable to
each other. Matt started to tell Joe what he had been doing but he had one problem. He
was struggling to pay the rent at this new house as he had no job and needed a place
to stay.

Lucky for Matt, Joe is a very rich man and owns many houses around Harrington. He
wants to help a friend out and offers Matt to move in with him for the time being until he
can get a job. Matt doesnt even consider the offer for a minute and he quickly accepts.
They arrange for a truck to arrive at Matts place and he will move in next week. What
Matt doesnt know is that Joe has Tuberculosis, an infectious disease that can make
you very very sick.

SHUT UP!!!!

Haha Dr.
Pee Pee.

Youre not so
great yourself!

Meanwhile, in Joes body there is a pathogen called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. But

we can just call him Dr. Putrid Pathogen or Dr. P.P. He has already started to multiply in
Joes body and needs to get out to invade someone elses body because he loves
making people sick and miserable. 15-20 hours until his invasion is complete, he also
has an evil plan and his next victim is Matt

IM SO
POWERFUL!!
MWAHAHA

This is a close-up of Dr.P.P. He can only grow in humans and is cylinder shaped almost
like a grain of rice but 100 times smaller. He is a pale cream colour and takes about 1520 hours to grow if he were to invade Matts body. He is also acid fast meaning that he
is resistant to de-colourisation during staining procedures. Dr.P.P is also very small
approximately 0.2-0.5 um in width and 2-4 micrometers in length. He is so evolved than
he was before and he is ready to take over Matts body, his evil plan will commence in
7 days..

7 days later..
Matt is moving in and he is so excited that his life is finally turning around. Joe is
starting to feel a bit sick and coughs a lot but he doesnt think its anything serious so he
leaves it and doesnt go to the doctors. Joe shows Matt his room and around the house.
They make an agreement that Joe will help him find a job but Matt has to work around
the house and help with different jobs.

Joe had been coughing A LOT for 3 weeks but he doesnt know why and thought it
would go away. Matt becomes very concerned for his health and suggests that he
should go to the doctors and see whats wrong with him. Matt promises that he will look
after the house and him when he gets back. Meanwhile the water droplets that contain
Dr. P.P are in the air and all Matt has to do is breathe it all in.

This is a close up of Dr. P.P in action as he flies through the air and will attempt to get
into Matts nose. He travels with microscopic droplets and can remain in the air for a
few hours. Dr. P.P can only be spread from person to person and he will remain in
Matts lungs, but only if he can get there first.

The bacterium is stored in Joes lungs and whenever he coughs, sneezes or laughs
etc. microscopic droplets travel through the air and can remain there for hours. Another
person, in this case Matt had to have close contact with Joe for a long period of time to
catch the disease. It is inhaled through the nose or mouth and it travels down the
trachea, to the lungs where it will grow and multiply in a time period of 15-20 hours. All
DR.P.P has to do is get through 3 lines of defense.

As you can see here, Dr.P.P. has successfully travelled to Matts nose where he will
meet the first line of defense. He will have to travel through the rainforest of hair and
mucous. The hair should filter out any unwanted substances while the mucous will stick
to the intruder preventing it from entering. But, Dr.P.P. is prepared and he safely got to
the other side of Matts nostrils.

Dr. P.P then has to fight his way through the second line of defense. Phagocytes are
released through blood vessels and move towards any pathogens that have invaded
the body. They ingest the pathogen or release chemicals to absorb it and white blood
vessels are released and attack the dying cells. But, Mr Putrid Pathogen was able to
hide and come out after the phagocytes have left.

Dr P.P reaches the 3rd line of defense and he sees a B cell coming out being activated
by a T cell. He watches as it divides into a plasma and memory cells tagging bacteria
with antibodies. These big eater cells come out devouring bacteria tagged with
antibodies. The memory cells then come out and take a picture of the bacteria to
remember it for next time. He quickly slides into the lungs merely missing the eater cells
and decides to make himself comfortable.

Dr.P.P begins to multiply but he is very slow at it, it will take him 15-20 hours to multiply
into large numbers. As we can see here his evil plan is in action and soon he will
conquer Matts body and make him very sick. At first he is only latent Tuberculosis then
he will become active causing many symptoms and problems.

Meanwhile on the outside Matt is coughing and he will often cough up bloody phlegm.
He also feels very tired and doesnt feel like eating at all resulting to weight loss.

He also has a high temperature and sweats a lot at night. He also has a lot of chest
pain and pain that he cannot explain throughout his body.

Matt decides that he should go to the doctors to see whats wrong with him. The doctor
performs some tests and says that Matt has Tuberculosis. Matt started to worry a lot
but the doctor calmed him down and said that it was curable he just had to take some
medication. The doctor also said that he saw Joe down here a few weeks ago and he
had tuberculosis as well!

The doctor prescribed him with some medications to cure his disease. Matt had to
follow a strict plan in order for the treatment to work. He treatment was to go from 6-9
months taking a combination of four different antibiotics to fight the bacteria. Mr
Medicine Man lived in these antibiotics and wanted to fight Dr. P.P and restore Matts
body once again.

Mr. Medicine Man entered Matts body and fought for 8 long months. Dr. P.P grew
weaker and weaker as the months went on and on. Eventually Mr. Medicine Mans
army defeated Dr.P.P and he was removed from Matts body never to return again. Mr.
Medicine Man lived to fight another day and eventually Matt and Joe became healthy
again. Matt also found a job but he stayed at Joes place and was able to help with
payments.