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Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback
An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC has a piece on a recent resurgence in some old-timey diseases. Mumps, Whooping Cough, and Rickets are making a comeback, back in style like it's 1955." From the article: "Public-health officials certainly weren't expecting to get 'bitten' by mumps this year. Although the virus has been circulating in British kids since 2000, it hadn't caused much trouble in the United States since an outbreak in Kansas 18 years ago. The Midwest is the epicenter again, but the victims are primarily college students, not children. Once a childhood disease, the virus has now taken hold in university towns. That's partly because crowded dorms and cafeterias are breeding grounds for germs that are spread by sneezing and coughing."
1864 Mumps: A little fruity, but solid, bold taste. Goes well with chicken (pox).
Vintage diseases huh? I guess that makes them retroviruses.
Well, the part about university students being a breeding ground for virus' and disease is nothing new. Oh wait, you said universities! Nevermind then.
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Foreigners coming into America and afflicting the people living there with new dieseases? For some reason, I feel like I've heard that one before.
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A list of diseases making a come back:
- Possessed by as ghost
- A little midget living in your stomach
- Selling your soul (most characteristic: you start believing Earth isn't flat and start doubting it's the center of the world)
- Going blind when you... uhmm you know.