For most, the prognosis is poor: only 2% to 3% survive for five years or more.
Bigger funds, which have economies of scale, might be able to survive for another few years on these paltry pickings.
After all, he reasoned, some single-celled creatures are known to enter a hibernation-like state and survive for years with no air or food.
If it can't swallow the whole thing, it will settle for its head, and that roach is dead for sure (or at least, dying, because roaches are known to survive for a while without heads).
With it, NASA took the lead in creating the space station, where humans have learned how to survive for months in micro-gravity and do biomedical and astronomical research.
EHEC has also been isolated from bodies of water (ponds, streams), Wells and water troughs, and has been found to survive for months in manure and water-trough sediments.
