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Follies of the Mad Men #105
I'm sorry, that trailing umbilical cord freaks me out too much to pay attention to the message.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 31, 2010 -
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Category: Babies, Health, Disease, PSA’s, Pregnancy
About Faces
When was the last time you thought about your teeth!?!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 20, 2009 -
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Category: Body, Health, Disease, Documentaries, 1940s
Swine Ebola - No Joke!
In this case it seems like most likely that the pigs caught the disease from the human rather than the other way round. However that pigs can catch and potentially pass on the organism to humans is an unexpected, and worrying, development. Michael McIntosh of the Department of Agriculture expressed concern not only that the Reston strain might mutate into something more deadly in its new host, but that the other disease-causing strains might also be using pigs as a reservoir. "What is the level of risk?" said McIntosh, "We really don't know" (Scientific American Article) (Paper in Science).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Sat Jul 11, 2009 -
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Category: Agriculture, Animals, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Food, Health, Disease
Sick Human Detector
A Belgian company has filed a patent for an invention designed to detect sick travelers in airports. They call it a device for the "RECOGNITION AND LOCALISATION OF PATHOLOGIC ANIMAL AND HUMAN SOUNDS."The idea is to place microphones around airports that will zero in on the sound of people coughing. The people hacking their lungs out can then be prevented from boarding a plane. A less controversial use of the technology is to detect sick pigs in pig pens.
Can people be stopped from traveling because they have a cold? I've never seen that done, but I'd like it (despite the inconvenience to the sick people) 'cause otherwise they infect everyone else on the plane. Though of course, if I were the one kicked off a plane I'd be seeing red. (via New Scientist)
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 17, 2009 -
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Category: Health, Disease, Inventions, Patents, Travel
Brain Worms
Brain worms can be contracted by eating undercooked pork, as well as by coming into contact with someone who has worm eggs in their body and who hasn't washed their hands.But the good news about brain worms is that they're generally less dangerous than having a brain tumor. Which is why a Phoenix-area woman was relieved when her brain tumor turned out to be a brain worm. The reason I'm posting this on Weird Universe: because Fox 10 Chattanooga has a video of the worm being removed (still alive) from her brain.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 20, 2008 -
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Category: Health, Disease, Medicine
Follies of the Mad Men #42
Yet another "disease" that Madison Avenue tried to foist upon the public.
[From Fortune magazine for December 1936.]
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 10, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Furniture, 1930s, Disease
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