'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
(Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?)
Yep. A few years ago, my aunt ended up in the hospital on IV antibiotics for weeks with cat-scratch fever. I shit you not. That was a little more than a "scratch," though -- the cat left bits of tooth and claw in my aunt.
I once had a heartbreaking Reference question in which the patron wanted to prove to some doctors that her friend didn't have some very aggressive and almost always fatal kind of breast cancer, but rather had cat scratch fever. The diseases are not that similar, according to all information I could find.
My problem with the you can go anywhere type if park is the damage to the land from people being stupid as they wander, or there just being too many of them, not the danger.
Heh. Did you hear the icky story on CNN this week about Mount McKinley? Apparently it's so clogged up with years of climbers' poop that it's becoming a health hazard.
Probably only of interest to DCistas: Borf got caught.
Did you hear the icky story on CNN this week about Mount McKinley? Apparently it's so clogged up with years of climbers' poop that it's becoming a health hazard.
They should just close it off and rename it Poo Mountain.
ferrets were illegal to keep in MA until fairly recently (along with commercial tattoo parlors)
Well, they might be commercial tattoo parlors, but they're hardly domesticated.
Yikes, Robin and Jesse! I thought it wasn't usually a very serious thing. I've been scratched up by our cats several times in the past week and am always pretty lax about cleaning them out properly.
Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?Yes, within the last three years, my friend's daughter had it. She thought the pediatrician was joking when he told her. I thought she was joking, when she told me.
Really, I don't think the regular kind of scratch puts you at much risk. This cat was hanging off my aunt's arm.
Cat scratch fever and how to avoid it: [link]
In other news, one of the BIG disasvantages of my adorable chamring daughter is the fact that I have had "Elmo's song" in my head for DAYS. I shelve books singing, "La la la, La la la, Elmo's song..."