You could throw that in too, sure. (I considered listing ways to kill germs, like boiling, pickling, salting, drying, and applying alcohol or alkalis, but figured my run-on sentence was run-onish enough already. Having thought about it more I might try a more concise nudge about the tiny creatures digesting carcasses.)
″...and boiling water kills most of them.”?
You could throw that in too, sure. (I considered listing ways to kill germs, like boiling, pickling, salting, drying, and applying alcohol or alkalis, but figured my run-on sentence was run-onish enough already. Having thought about it more I might try a more concise nudge about the tiny creatures digesting carcasses.)