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The Black Plague Batted .500 Its Rookie Year

Posted by michael on from the collect-them-all dept.

ElDuderino44137 writes "Hey, kids, got the summer blues? The CIA isn't the only one with a kids' page to keep you busy. The Centers for Disease Control have the full set of collectible infectious disease trading cards. Mix 'em, match 'em, trade 'em, recoil in abject horror from 'em."

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  1. Criminal collectable cards by Bob_Robertson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here I thought that those "Most Awful Criminals" cards were in bad taste.

    Reading the back of the Anthrax card, it's just propaganda for kids to show mommy and daddy so they won't defund the CDC.

    Bob-

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    1. Re:Criminal collectable cards by MindStalker · · Score: 3, Insightful

      How is stating that anthrax has been used in bioterrorism propaganda. It really did happen you know.

  2. Kids these days... by I_Love_Pocky! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get all of the cool toys. Why didn't they have this when I was growing up?

  3. Clearly, designed for children by jtheory · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ...by people who don't have a great understanding of children.

    I think this would have given me nightmares when I was a kid (check out page 2, with the thick white membrane in the throat of the Diptheria sufferer, or the backwards-bent leg of the Polio girl)... but I think the helpful translations of scientific words would have made up for it. This snippet (from the Cyclosporiasis blurb) is a fine example:
    You may get this disease from eating food or swallowing water that has been contaminated with feces (poop). About a week after you get this parasite, you may start to feel sick and have diarrhea.

    Yeah, I'm sure the kid knows what "contaminated" means... come on, guys. Though I will forgive them not trying to explain "diarrhea" using small words.
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