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Thursday, February 09, 2006

In 17th century Spain, they called it "El garatillo" (the strangler)

Yesterday on a comment, I said I'd write a post on Diptheria.
Don't know why, I just liked the word "Diptheria" and the idea of making a blog post that's actually about something.

So in my extensive research (read: google), I found that Diptheria does 1 or more of the following:
1. Makes your neck enormous
2. Makes the back of your throat all crusty
3. Makes toxic green ulcers grow on your penis
(This can happen, whether or not you've received fellationem from an infected person)

You also might fall into a coma. There's 10% chance that you'll die in a week.

Diptheria is caused by a bacteria. You catch it by touching the discharge from an infected person's boogers or lesions. (Again, do NOT touch the lesions!) You probably had a shot to prevent Diptheria, when you were little. That's why only 1 or 2 people in the US catch it, each year. Though in some parts of the world, it's worse.

There was an outbreak of Diptheria in Seattle, 1993. It primarily affected dirty, lesion-touching grunge kids who would have killed themselves anyway. So nobody cared.

Diptheria does not make you foam at the mouth or crave blood, like awesome Rabies does.

Diptheria, you bore me!

posted at 1:31 PM |

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