Billie Juni and Joanne Bartkus answers questions about... What is a microbiologist? What is an epidemiologist? What do you do at the Minnesota Department of Health Clinical Lab? What is "Public Health"? What are bacteria? How are bacteria different from viruses? Do you use math in your work? Can you give an example? How can you see bacteria if they are so small? How do you know when you are looking at bacteria through the microscope? What kind of microscope do you use? How many times bigger does your microscope make things What inspired you to become a scientist who studies microbes?

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