Fascinating!

I want More! How about a diary about Interluken. (I think that is the spelling)

You make things so easy to understand!

Just like Carl Sagen.

More, please!

but unfortunately quite realistic.

And with the GOP in power - God help us. (remember Katrina -- you are doing a hell of a job, Brownie) -

This was a great read -- well written and extremely informative.  I'm going to pass this on.

Very well written article. I think that this is the first time I've ever had a written word piece make me jump, even just a bit. You're descriptions of the "living dead" in medieval times is truly terrifying because because you make it more plausible with the descriptions and pictures of how bubonic plague works. So much the worse that the zombies are not mindless, but human beings in pain, in need of comfort, and contagious as Hell. So much the more deadly. Just ask the locals at the next ebola outbreak. IIRC, they were having problems with a tradition of kissing the deceased loved one's corpse spreading the virus to the living.

I'm using the comment I'm replying to as a tip jar, and I'm definitely passing this article on.

BlackGriffen

I'm already sick often, and get sinus and ear infections requiring antibiotics about 6 times a year.  I only take the a.b.s when it's a bacterial infection; I'm actually sick more often than that (every four to sick weeks) but lots of times its just nasty viruses, and I ride them out.

So obviously I have a not great immune system and I also have way too much exposure to antibiotics.  I really worry about this.  Will I be able to respond well to treatment if I get avian flu or bubonic plague, given my high level of antibiotic use?

One more question-- what is the name of the anti-avian flu shot stuff that one can get?  I read it in a dKos diary here a few weeks ago (msybe it was one of your diaries, DS) but have forgotten the name...

Thank you for this fantastic diary.

In the "Hot Zone", a true story about the emerging Ebola-type viruses, the author calls humanity, all 6 billion of us, (paraphrasing here) the largest pile of meat on Earth, and enterprising bacteriae and viruses are scheming overtime on eating it.  Nature abhors waste, and all that meat is just sitting there, waiting...

the Medieval era in homeschool.  I co-authored a curriculum for a series of history books and the plague was one of my chapters.  Interesting but very gross so it's right up my kid's alley.

This is a superb entry in making the single most complicated biological field understandable to most anyone.  It's better then anything I ever wrote on the topic by a longshot.

Great work, DarkSyde.

Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a New Jersey laboratory a month ago.
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At first I thought of this as an escape, but the word "disappeared" takes on sinister connotations...