Question: What is the most dangerous bacteria that you have worked on and could it kill someone?

Emma Stevenson answered on 4 Nov 2017:

I haven’t worked on anything too dangerous. Although the two bacteria I have worked with could make you ill if your body was already weak. Some of my work mates work with a more serious bacteria called Burkholderia pseudomallei. This causes a very bad disease which can’t be cured very easily. So, you have to work with it in a special lab and have no contact at all with it.