During the building of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa between 1826 and 1832, thousands of workers and their families got sick - and some died - due to poor sanitary conditions at the site and in their shanty quarters. These illnesses were caused by bacteria. Do you know how quickly bacteria can replicate?

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If you start with 1 bacterium of Shigella - the bacteria responsible for dysentery - you'll end up with 16,777,216 bacteria after 24 hours.