'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
it's less than 40 miles
Yes, it is true that right now The Mouse is of the suck. Hopefully I can get them to pay my weekly rate for this overage in work which will more than cancel out the money I'd lose from having to drop the show at the beginning of April.
WHY do I watch L&O: SVU?
It is a horrible horrible show.
Can anything ever be wiped out entirely, though, given the international factor, where vaccines aren't the norm?
Smallpox is gone. Measles are almost gone, although unrest in Africa has set that back.
Measles are almost gone, although unrest in Africa has set that back.
There have been a bunch of cases of measles in the US this year. I remember hearing about a few in Brooklyn a few weeks ago, and in San Diego maybe a month or two ago.
Is smallpox really gone everywhere? Just out of curiosity?
I should probably stop accepting medical issues from ER as facts, huh?
I'm okay with Gardasil too.
Soon as Em can have it (first period, I think), she's getting it.
Smallpox was eradicated about 30 years ago, after an intense global effort.
I suspect, however, that the cost/benefit analysis regarding eradication of chicken pox isn't something that pans out. It's rarely more than a nuisance, the vaccine ain't cheap, and frankly, there are a hell of a lot more pressing concerns that the world's public health dollars should be spent on.
Someone make me stop reading WHO stats before bed.
(eta: on the plus side, epidemiology maps! who needs sleep?)
(eta+: measles sadly not nearly gone: 242,000 deaths worldwide in 2006 (compare: ~1 mil for malaria). BUT what I went looking for -- polio is the new smallpox; it's down to 1300 cases (2007), and is endemic in only 4 countries. Fucker's going DOWN.)
(Umm, I'll shut up now.)