First, the absurdly convenient, “Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder”. Apparently if you get dumped, and you’re mad about it, you now have an official illness. Learn more here. Immediately after learning of this wonderful new disease I diagnosed myself and started texting The Wife about various things I’m bitter about so that she could start fixing them for me. For instance, I’m extremely bitter that the grass grew last week and I don’t think I can get over it. She needs to mow for me. She was not as amused by this as I am.
Actually now that I think about it, there have been some commenters here in the past month that might really have some bitterness they can’t get over. I wonder if there is a treatment available yet?
The second, and far more real disease, is currently called the Lujo virus. It was discovered, like most scary diseases, in Africa. While it initially presented with some similarities to Ebola, it is more closely related to Lassa virus and other Areaviruses.
The first known outbreak killed the initial presenting patient and 3 of her 4 infected healthcare workers. Like other diseases in the undeveloped world, it’s hard to know exactly how long this has been around, or where it really started. None-the-less I’ve been reading the CDC study with morbid fascination. Find more here.
Things like this make me wish I’d stayed in science.
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