Eli5 how is it that you can get sick eating a tiny bit of moldy bread? How does your stomach acid not annihilate the mold

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Eli5 how is it that you can get sick eating a tiny bit of moldy bread? How does your stomach acid not annihilate the mold

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The mold doesn’t hurt you. What the mold pees and poops out hurts you. Mold doesn’t cause an infection. Mold produces chemicals that the body doesn’t handle well.

That’s like asking why stomach acid doesn’t neutralize cyanide.

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