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Will Eating Pus Kill You?

what happens if someone eats white pus from a pimple?
Fri, 7 Jan 2011
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Certainly this is not advicable.. Pus contains Live and dead bacteria and white blood cell. Howver eating pus usually does not kill the person as Acid in the stomach degrade all biological material ingested.
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Will Eating Pus Kill You?

Certainly this is not advicable.. Pus contains Live and dead bacteria and white blood cell. Howver eating pus usually does not kill the person as Acid in the stomach degrade all biological material ingested.