This pixelated leaf I found

[u/ThumYorky]

[u/StupidityHurts]

They like pretty much every other living thing can be infected with all the usual stuff.

Fungi, viruses, bacteria, and parasites.

[u/Dragonsandman → u/StupidityHurts]

Viruses that infect bacteria have some potential for medical applications, particularly for potentially dealing with drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. They're not a silver bullet solution, but there's been quite a lot of research that's been conducted on using bacteriophages in this manner, particularly in Georgia (the country) and in Russia.

[u/StupidityHurts → u/Dragonsandman]

Yea Bacteriophage research has been around for ages actually

[u/uberguby → u/Dragonsandman]

Also, if anybody hasn't seen a bacteriophage before, they are one of the coolest
microscopic (nanoscopic?) structures in nature. I feel like in the context of "anti-bacterial research" we might get the impression that the "walking syringe with payload" structure is artificial, but that just happened, out there in the world.

[u/IdoNOThateNEVER → u/StupidityHurts]

cancer too.