…if God had really cared about native Americans, he might have given them immunity to smallpox.
Canadian Cynic in response to Denyse O’Leary’s crazy idea that God loved native Americans because the bison “is the ONLY mammal like this and enabled native Americans to feed their families with one arrow anyplace in the chest…collapsing BOTH lungs.”
This one takes a personal twist, as a couple of weeks ago I was stricken with a case of campylobacteriosis, caused by Campylobacter jejuni. This video explains what the bacteria is, what it does (oh god it makes you sick) and how to avoid getting it into your system:
I don’t think I’ve got Guillain-Barré Syndrome yet…
From the New York Times:
The man infected with a dangerous and hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis, who potentially exposed several hundred airline passengers to the disease, is the son-in-law of a microbiologist who studies tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement this afternoon that Mr. Speaker’s father-in-law, Dr. Bob Cooksey, works for the C.D.C. in its division of tuberculosis elimination, where he studies the spread of tuberculosis and other bacteria.
I don’t know if this is irony in the proper sense or in the Morissette sense…
