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September 16, 2005
"Hey, Has Anyone Seen the Plague Mice?"
This is not a headline you want to see, ever.
Investigators said the lab mice were injected as part of an inoculation and vaccination experiment with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bacterium causes bubonic and other forms of plague -- an infectious disease which has claimed more than 30 million lives through history and even today sparks fear and panic around the world at the very mention of its name.Oh, well. Simple lab mix-up. I mean, who among us has never misplaced carriers of the Black Death?"It's a bad disease," noted John G. Bartlett, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
With modern antibiotics, plague can be treated if quickly diagnosed and is not the scourge that wiped out a third of Europe during the years of the Black Death in the 14th century, but it remains a deadly killer.
Note to self: don't visit New Jersey for the next few months. (h/t:Malkin)
Posted by slublog at September 16, 2005 10:11 AM
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We'll have to think of a new nickname for New Jersey. "Arm pitt of the nation" just doesn't fit anymore. How about "disease infested state"?
Posted by: Ralph at September 16, 2005 11:53 AM
Heck, the poor mice are in more danger from the state's drinking water than from anything they were injected with anyway.
Posted by: Slublog at September 16, 2005 12:21 PM