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On Diphtheria and God-sized Joints.

January 13th, 2009 · by John · 9 Comments

Over dinner, Jana likes to regale us with stories of infectious diseases (luckily this hasn’t included dysentery–yet). Lately, this has included detailed descriptions of death by diphtheria. Most of the fatalities caused by this disease were children and the elderly, and the bacillus killed by slowly secreting a leathery membrane that grew until it blocked [...]

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Woman…

January 13th, 2009 · by John · No Comments

You rock my world.

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