We've gotten plenty of questions from readers. This is because they contain little gas in their cells, so little decompression takes place. Some vent fluids that we've been sampling, however, do release their gas and become bubbly during their trip to the surface, most often because they contain high concentrations of smelly hydrogen sulfide gas. I was reading the letter and response about bacteria possibly passing on its plasmid resistance qualities through drugs to humans.
Chimps seem to be found only in warm weather conditions, whereas our species pops up everywhere.
We chatted with Lt. Joe Tritchler, the ship's medical officer, who once worked in an AIDS clinic in Pennsylvania. Instead, chimps can get a disease called SIV, or Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, for which they have the appropriate receptors. It doesn't have to do with climate or body heat, just species-specific diseases. The Steven Jay Gould article that you cited mentions hyperthermophiles living at temperatures of over 600 degrees Fahrenheit.