"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Crud-Causing Bugs: We've been seeing a lot of vomiting and diarrhea around here this week. My son said he only had eight out of twenty-two kids in his class yesterday because of it. So, in honor of my community's outbreak, and those on the ship cruises, here are images of two viruses often implicated in the "intestinal flu" or "intestinal virus" also known as viral gastroenteritis - the Norwalk virus and the Rotavirus. (Scroll down to see the pictures.) - from The Big Picture Book of Viruses (via The Eyes Have It) posted by Sydney on
12/12/2002 06:22:00 AM
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