Where can people harbour bacteria?

Question

this question is in a food safety quiz... so yer i might have something to do with food poisoning... i dunno..

please help! ive got to finish this quiz!

Answer 1

i hope one of your answer options is "all the above" because anywhere inside and outside the body can harbor bacteria; you don't even have to be alive, that's how corpses decompose; one exception would be if the person was frozen, then the bacteria cannot survive

Answer 2

Is this an open book quizz?

Answer 3

In a warm, damp place.

Like, any open orifices. Ears, mouth, under nails, near or around the genitals or anal area.

Answer 4

People have bacteria naturally occurring all over and inside the body. Our skin is the largest organ for carrying bacteria and generally the bacteria only becomes a problem when the person (host) becomes immunocomprimised. In terms of food, I would think that the answer they are looking for may be on the Hands. The hands are the best way to spread bacteria, which is why good effective handwashing is the greatest defence against the spread of bacteria.  

Answer 5

in moist, warm crevices or folds of your skin

Answer 6

In a petri dish!!!  

Answer 7

Bacteria are all over our life.

The most common place for a sample would be soil, sometimes water, of course you can also find a variety of them in your leftovers from last week.

They are one your hands, in your intestines (it is actually a good thing, they are a good helper for digest fibers in oatmeal etc.).

They are also found in uncooked meat and vegetables, maybe that has something to do with the food poisoning part.

Answer 8

Under their fingernails

Answer 9

People have bacteria on their skin, in the mouth, in the respiratory passages and in the digestive system.  There are about ten times as many bacterial cells in and on a person as there are cells with the human genome.  That is, the number of bacterial cells carried by a human is numbered in the tens of trillions.  Oh, by the way, if they all died, a humans would have a hard time surviving.