Where's the petri dish thread?

[DCHawk1]

Cuz I think this goes there.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/10 ... who-latest

[ousdahl]

Ewwwww!


(I woulda just put it in that thread)

[Deleted User 89]

i was in Cameroon when the outbreak occurred in Nigeria a few years ago...scared the shit out of me

[defixione]

Douala?

[Deleted User 89]

Douala?

all up along the volcanic line

spent time in Douala, Yaoundé, and Bemenda, but was mostly out in rural mountainous areas

[defixione]

I flew into Douala in January of 1981 to go cross country to Cairo. Chad just happened to be at war with Sudan when I arrived so those plans got tossed. We decided to take bush taxis around the west coast to Cairo but Raleigh had just overthrown the Ghana government when we got to Togo, so we went north through Mali, up to Timbuctu, then back south to Abidjian in the Ivory Coast and around the west coast. Hung out in Dakar for quite a while then took a train headed to Rabat but Morrocan jets were strafing the trains (another war) so we headed back to Dakar until we flew home. Made it as far south as Equatorial Guinea and Gabon (couldn't go farther south because of apartheid, no northern countries would let us back in with visa stamps from those countries in our passports). Never made it to Cairo.

[3rdGenJayhawk]

Wow. Sounds like quite an adventure! I visited Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lybia (just as far as Tripoli) in 1992. But no scary wars.

[defixione]

Beautiful country/s. Wonderful people, wonderful cultures. Lots of good memories.

[DCHawk1]

Your youth was a lot of fun.

Or so I've heard.

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.axios.com/crispr-gene-edite ... 6c187.html

this is such a slippery slope...

[kubandalum]

https://www.axios.com/crispr-gene-edite ... 6c187.html

this is such a slippery slope...

Scary. Along a different, but I think similar line, and just as scary is this:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-rev ... -behavior/

Scary for a company to do this; scarier if put into the hands of a government. Both ideas share the common thread of people who view other people’s lives as toys for them to play with and experiment on.

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/heal ... rgies.html

[chiknbut]

I flew into Douala in January of 1981 to go cross country to Cairo. Chad just happened to be at war with Sudan when I arrived so those plans got tossed. We decided to take bush taxis around the west coast to Cairo but Raleigh had just overthrown the Ghana government when we got to Togo, so we went north through Mali, up to Timbuctu, then back south to Abidjian in the Ivory Coast and around the west coast. Hung out in Dakar for quite a while then took a train headed to Rabat but Morrocan jets were strafing the trains (another war) so we headed back to Dakar until we flew home. Made it as far south as Equatorial Guinea and Gabon (couldn't go farther south because of apartheid, no northern countries would let us back in with visa stamps from those countries in our passports). Never made it to Cairo.

Sounds like my last trip to Branson.

[Deleted User 62]

I flew into Douala in January of 1981 to go cross country to Cairo. Chad just happened to be at war with Sudan when I arrived so those plans got tossed. We decided to take bush taxis around the west coast to Cairo but Raleigh had just overthrown the Ghana government when we got to Togo, so we went north through Mali, up to Timbuctu, then back south to Abidjian in the Ivory Coast and around the west coast. Hung out in Dakar for quite a while then took a train headed to Rabat but Morrocan jets were strafing the trains (another war) so we headed back to Dakar until we flew home. Made it as far south as Equatorial Guinea and Gabon (couldn't go farther south because of apartheid, no northern countries would let us back in with visa stamps from those countries in our passports). Never made it to Cairo.

Sounds like my last trip to Branson.

Wait, don't you play 24 shows a week there?

[chiknbut]

I flew into Douala in January of 1981 to go cross country to Cairo. Chad just happened to be at war with Sudan when I arrived so those plans got tossed. We decided to take bush taxis around the west coast to Cairo but Raleigh had just overthrown the Ghana government when we got to Togo, so we went north through Mali, up to Timbuctu, then back south to Abidjian in the Ivory Coast and around the west coast. Hung out in Dakar for quite a while then took a train headed to Rabat but Morrocan jets were strafing the trains (another war) so we headed back to Dakar until we flew home. Made it as far south as Equatorial Guinea and Gabon (couldn't go farther south because of apartheid, no northern countries would let us back in with visa stamps from those countries in our passports). Never made it to Cairo.

Sounds like my last trip to Branson.

Wait, don't you play 24 shows a week there?

Yes. This happens quite often, as you could guess.

[Deleted User 89]

those duck boat rides tho...

[Shirley]

6 babies and 6 employees at a hospital have tested positive for a drug-resistant infection

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital confirmed on Monday 12 cases of a drug-resistant staph infection in its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a statement from the hospital...

[Leawood]

Univ. of Pittsburgh is one of the best hospitals/medical schools in the nation. Scary.

[zsn]

Back in the early 90’s when I was a post-doc at UPitt I pointed out to the manager of the Wendy’s across the street from the medical center/hospital that it’s not proper for doctors and residents to show up there with their coats on. The manager basically said “you don’t have to eat here if you don’t want to”. I wasn’t thinking drug-resistant bugs back then but I wasn’t too far off. Just imagine!

[Shirley]

Back in the early 90’s when I was a post-doc at UPitt I pointed out to the manager of the Wendy’s across the street from the medical center/hospital that it’s not proper for doctors and residents to show up there with their coats on. The manager basically said “you don’t have to eat here if you don’t want to”. I wasn’t thinking drug-resistant bugs back then but I wasn’t too far off. Just imagine!

Yet more evidence that you Phuds will do anything to act out your resentment and hostility toward the selfless servants of medicine whose only motivation is the betterment of mankind?