When Abby interrupts Ducky and Palmer with a call to Gibbs on the monitor, he is seen turning his head towards it, however in the next shot his head is back in front of him while Abby is still calling his name.
When Carol puts an image of the stained bacteria up on the computer screen, you see a lot of round red bacteria in clumps. When the bacteria is cultured and grown out, it is identified as Strep pneumoniae, later on as Meningococcus A. This does not match with the stained slide, as Streptococcus pneumoniae forms chains, not clumps. Moreover, the slide shows pink
-stained bacteria (Gram negative, like meningococci). Streptococci are Gram positive and would have stained purple.
Abbie and her friend Carol are both very capable scientists. When the bacteria is cultured and grown out, there is no way that they would mistake Strep pneumoniae and Meningococcus A. Lab tests would clearly differentiate between the two. Lab cultures would also take more than 24 hours to grow out. Granted, this is TV fiction, when the time to complete lab tests of all sorts (including DNA analysis) are compressed into a much shorter time than is required in reality.
Abbie and her friend Carol are both very capable scientists. When the bacteria is cultured and grown out, there is no way that they would mistake Strep pneumoniae and Meningococcus A. Lab tests would clearly differentiate between the two. Lab cultures would also take more than 24 hours to grow out. Granted, this is TV fiction, when the time to complete lab tests of all sorts (including DNA analysis) are compressed into a much shorter time than is required in reality.
Various characters (including some of the scientists) refer to the bacterium as Strep pneumonia but the name is Strep pneumoniae.
Bishop says she will be spending Christmas in Oklahoma where she will go snowshoeing with her father. Generally, snowfall in Oklahoma would only be a few inches deep, and even record breaking snowfall would only be between 1-2 feet. What's more, white Christmases are rare in Oklahoma. It's unlikely she would even own snowshoes.
Carol uses "bacterium" to denote a single type of bacteria. However, "bacterium" means, in fact, a single cell of what is collectively known as bacteria. A scientist of her caliber should use the proper terminology.
None of the diseases mentioned by Bishop is truly eradicated. Most of them are nearly eradicated in the developed world, but most of them are still well-known in the developing world.