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Friday, December 23rd, 2005 09:19 am
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I think I can safely state that I have reached *new levels* of boredom when I'm surfing the CDC website, looking to see all the diseases that so far, I do not have.
The list includes:
1.) African Sleeping Sickness (two kinds!)
2.) Anthrax
3.) Smallpox (four kinds! FOUR KINDS!)
4.) This one that involves a worm emerging from your skin every so often to reproduce. Seriously, folks, never mention this one to me again, because just reading about it reminds me of all the reasons that I like my water in coffee form.
5.) Mad Cow Disease (called something unpronounceable when applied to humans)
6.) Tuberculosis
CDC is not crack. It makes crack look good and pure and healthy. Real boredom leads you to diagnose yourself in the bathroom for bubonic plague because those darn lymph nodes are looking a little enlarged, don't you think?
...this is where I wander off to quietly convince myself I'm developing bacterial meningitis, isn't it?
Carry on.
The list includes:
1.) African Sleeping Sickness (two kinds!)
2.) Anthrax
3.) Smallpox (four kinds! FOUR KINDS!)
4.) This one that involves a worm emerging from your skin every so often to reproduce. Seriously, folks, never mention this one to me again, because just reading about it reminds me of all the reasons that I like my water in coffee form.
5.) Mad Cow Disease (called something unpronounceable when applied to humans)
6.) Tuberculosis
CDC is not crack. It makes crack look good and pure and healthy. Real boredom leads you to diagnose yourself in the bathroom for bubonic plague because those darn lymph nodes are looking a little enlarged, don't you think?
...this is where I wander off to quietly convince myself I'm developing bacterial meningitis, isn't it?
Carry on.
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From:*goes to look*
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From:It's not much of a dream. But by God, it is mine.
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From:Bubonic plague, check, African Sleeping, western, check...
Which others?
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From:Thank you for giving me the heebie jeebies. *shudders*
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From:Just reading about it--just no. But wait! I'll find uyou a link where they talk about how they remove it! Because nothing, and I repeat *nothing*, can quite match the thing with the stick they do.
I'm looking at Tay-Saks now. THis is probably a good time to ask for someone to just go ahead and save me from myself.
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From:Creutzfeld-Jakob, hm?
Also, I'm quite surprised that the list of diseases you don't have (or haven't had) so far doesn't include Ebola. Having you been holding out on us?
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From:Jenn, I adore you so much. Shall I entertain you with the tale of the Sushi Boat?
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From:And I think he actually got to watch them remove the worm from another guy with the stick, and got to see the big scars. He is the reason I will never, ever go near Africa ever.
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From:I'm sorry. I'd die of starvation, being unable to eat and *know* that was in my body.
*shudders* Also, eww, just writing that is killing my appetite for lunch.
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From:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051219/cowleader_ani.html
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From:I know loads about anthrax, if you have any questions not covered by the CDC.
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From:Oh God, I never saw that part.
*going to look RIGHT NOW*
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From:that's okay - I'll join you, only I'll be worrying about Mad-Cow disease.
:-)
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From:Yeah. I need more hobbies.
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Infectious Disease Fun Facts!
From:victimpatient can be IMPRISONED, as in law enforcement and jail etc., for not taking his medication and doing follow-up!* Re: mad cow disease turned unpronounceable. Creutzfeld-Jacob or bovine spongiform encephalopathy? :P But one of the docs at work told me that it shows up really fast after you contract it, so it's not like you eat beef jerky one day and it shows up YEARS later, like some happy illnesses.
* Bubonic plague is embedded in the wild rodent population in the Western United States, an after-effect of the great plague in San Francisco during the turn of the century. Hunters, campers, and others who have close contact with the wildlife of this region have the highest risk of joining the dozen or so patients who contract plague each year in the U.S. (For a really excellent account of the San Francisco Plague, I recommend Marilyn Chase's book "The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco." I've never been able to look at all those beautiful Bay Area Victorian houses the same since!)
Just so you know, well, I'm afraid that I read your journal because I adore your fanfiction, which is probably vaguely creepy, but you and
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Re: Infectious Disease Fun Facts!
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