On October 12, 2012, public health officials at Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, got an unsettling call. Their medical center’s emergency department reported that in the last three days, three active-duty military had come in with vomiting and bloody diarrhea. All said they had recently fallen face-first in mud, during a Tough Mudder obstacle-course event on a nearby cattle ranch in the town of Beatty the week prior.
That's right folks wallowing in mud with hundreds of complete strangers might expose you to bacteria and if certain bacteria get into your digestive tract, you will experience digestive distress.
That so few people consider the possibility demonstrates the degree to which homo sapiens are not natural born scientists. We are tribal, however, and if there is enough tribal status to be gained but wallowing in the mud, we'll brave the explosive diarrhea to take hold of our reward.
Our ancestors who demonstrated their toughness through their work and not as a form of recreation, would have the good sense to walk around the mud hole.
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