Fair Warning

[sr71plt]

Oh god no! It goes in the arm with a tiny little needle. Your first reaction is, "Gee that wasn't bad." Then about an hour later your arm begins to hurt. By the following morning you begin to be afraid that your arm is going to fall off. By nightfall you wish it would! Ghastly vaccine . . . but much better than the plague. You can fairly easily avoid exposure by keeping your hands out of ground squirrel holes and not feeding the little blighters. Most of the people who catch it in California are 'off islanders' who don't know any better.

I've been a pincushion (just about everywhere) for innoculations over the decades. Worst experience was going through a three-month series of malaria shots--for the malaria they have in Africa when I was going to Thailand.

 

[sr71plt]

Keeping your fingers out of holes where they don't belong is probably wise advice for any number of situations.

There you go. I knew we could get this thread to a plot bunny.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Or a plot golden-mantled ground squirrel at the very least.

 

[Katyusha]

Keeping your fingers out of holes where they don't belong is probably wise advice for any number of situations.

*snerk*

 

[amicus]

Oh god no! It goes in the arm with a tiny little needle. Your first reaction is, "Gee that wasn't bad." Then about an hour later your arm begins to hurt. By the following morning you begin to be afraid that your arm is going to fall off. By nightfall you wish it would! Ghastly vaccine . . . but much better than the plague. You can fairly easily avoid exposure by keeping your hands out of ground squirrel holes and not feeding the little blighters. Most of the people who catch it in California are 'off islanders' who don't know any better.[/QUOTE]

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Anthrax vaccinations are even more fun; ask any serviceman serving in the Middle East.

ami

 

[xssve]

Old news if you live in NM, we have Hantavirus too. Bubonic plague is not much of a worry, the pneumonic variety is much deadlier and, being airborne, transmittable. Hantavirus is of the pneumonic variety, and extremely deadly, but doesn't appear to be especially infectious.

Rumor is it's something that escaped out of Los Alamos.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Old news if you live in NM, we have Hantavirus too. Bubonic plague is not much of a worry, the pneumonic variety is much deadlier and, being airborne, transmittable. Hantavirus is of the pneumonic variety, and extremely deadly, but doesn't appear to be especially infectious.

Rumor is it's something that escaped out of Los Alamos.

Typical conspiracy rumor. Hantavirus is rodent born and humans are infected when mice shit in your house. It is spread pneumatically there would have been repeated epidemics instead of isolated cases as it the case.