The circumstance of customers boarding airplanes shortly after ingesting their purchases affords food handlers employed at airports the opportunity to relax their adherence to hygienic practices. These shortcuts in neglect of cleanliness, while sure to be unpopular with the randomly visiting food safety inspector, can be confidently exercised by the self-centered server, who recognizes that…
There are nurses from whom vaccine administration might be described as being pricked by a needle. From others the same procedure is closer in sensation to how one imagines it would feel to have driven into muscle a metal stick with barbs. It was the latter that characterized my final in a series of rabies…
H5N1 is disconcerting because its name implies that there also exists H5N2, H5N3, H4R9, and the millions of other alphanumeric combinations. If ever I find myself lacking things to worry about, I have only to read an article on virology. If their child has been diagnosed with a life threatening disease, sometimes parents will, in…
HIV is a smart virus, but it would be smarter if it made all its victims horny. Rabies has it right. The infected animal becomes aggressive so that the rabies virus has a better chance of getting inside more bodies and thus extend its collective lifespan. HIV ought to tinker with the mind a bit…
This post relies on a huge generalization which states that when you age you become more passive and mellow. Cranky grandparents are more numerous than calling them the exception would allow, and so you’ll need to consider returning this post to the sender. However, it does apply to the aged who have markedly mellowed over…
One issue condom advocates tactfully avoid is how people are born. If you ever want to have kids, you have to remove the rubber. I very much would like to talk with the people in safe sex advertisements. I would tell them calmly that, by definition of their existence, their parents had {brace yourself} unprotected…