by Elio — This blog is in its eighth year, a fairly long life as blogs go. We con­tinue to en­joy shar­ing with you the ex­cite­ment of un­ex­pected and un­usual sto­ries of the mi­cro­bial world. Not all of it is the lat­est. You may have no­ticed if you visit this site with some fre­quency…