{"id":2275,"date":"2018-03-04T13:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2018-03-04T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T18:44:15","slug":"dr-bowdish-gives-a-lecture-for-kids-whos-got-more-cooties-boys-or-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/2018\/03\/04\/dr-bowdish-gives-a-lecture-for-kids-whos-got-more-cooties-boys-or-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bowdish gives a lecture for kids &#8220;Who&#8217;s got more cooties &#8211; boys or girls?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bowdish explains what cooties are, how the microbes that live on and in us can be friends and foes and describes how differences in infections and health between boys and girls, men and women are sometimes due to biology and sometimes due to behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article summarizing the event <a href=\"http:\/\/mcmasteriidr.ca\/2018\/02\/dundas-central-learns-more-about-microbes\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see Dr. Bowdish put on a macrophage cape and teach the school kids the difference between a commensal, a pathobiont and a pathogen by dressing up their teachers, watch here&#8230;..<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DtynGMeBLxI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2274\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Whos-got-more-cooties-questions-e1519642443599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2274\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Whos-got-more-cooties-questions-e1519642443599-253x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Whos-got-more-cooties-questions-e1519642443599-253x450.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Whos-got-more-cooties-questions-e1519642443599-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Whos-got-more-cooties-questions-e1519642443599-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Whos-got-more-cooties-questions-e1519642443599-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Whos-got-more-cooties-questions-e1519642443599.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children wrote down questions they had during the lecture and got answers back to them the next day. Had to break out the dictionary to find the etiology of the word &#8220;cooties&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bowdish explains what cooties are, how the microbes that live on and in us can be friends and foes and describes how differences in infections and health between boys and girls, men and women are sometimes due to biology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/2018\/03\/04\/dr-bowdish-gives-a-lecture-for-kids-whos-got-more-cooties-boys-or-girls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,13,12,44],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-community-involvement","tag-infectious-disease","tag-macrophage","tag-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowdish.ca\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}