tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609683919099708226.post4708040771910500974..comments2023-06-16T09:39:07.504-04:00Comments on Harpocrates Speaks: Anthrax - Not Just a Thrash Metal BandTodd W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16192694127268195554noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609683919099708226.post-72924398060413408472012-07-11T22:32:58.528-04:002012-07-11T22:32:58.528-04:00Wait one goddamn minute!
It's "thrash&qu...Wait one goddamn minute!<br /><br />It's "thrash" and not "trash". My God, I've been wrong all this time.Edward Anthony Jennerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040584896850981843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609683919099708226.post-66427222152633658492012-07-11T11:58:22.851-04:002012-07-11T11:58:22.851-04:00@Sullivan ThePoop
Doesn't stop them avoiding ...@Sullivan ThePoop<br /><br />Doesn't stop them avoiding measles vaccine. Also scary and extremely communicable, though less disfiguring.Todd W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16192694127268195554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609683919099708226.post-32779183130175624982012-07-11T11:52:22.906-04:002012-07-11T11:52:22.906-04:00Well, to be fair, if there was ever a case of smal...Well, to be fair, if there was ever a case of smallpox every anti-vax parent in the US would be trampling each other to get vaccinated. Not only is it extremely scary it is extremely communicable.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795018472494148149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609683919099708226.post-48361940418299647662012-07-10T09:19:38.370-04:002012-07-10T09:19:38.370-04:00Back during the Amerithrax attacks, I was just a l...Back during the Amerithrax attacks, I was just a lab guy who shouldn't have known any better. My proximity to Washington, DC, however, let to the processing of several samples in the lab that were from people with a community acquired pneumonia. Out of an abundance of caution, physicians were putting in requests to do cultures for Anthrax. There was no real need to make those requests since it grows well on traditional media for the isolation of common respiratory bacterial pathogens.<br /><br />So the question came up if we were going to be required to be vaccinated if the attacks continued or the person sending out those letters was never caught. I did my own research. (Sound familiar?) Except that my research was academic, like something I would submit to a professor for a letter grade, not something I'd post on a blog with the intent of scaring people into buying a homeopathic remedy.<br /><br />But I digress...<br /><br />This research led me to conclude that, since anthrax is not transmissible from person to person, and we were using good lab practices in handling samples, and the strain being used was not drug-resistant, I could probably do without the vaccine had it been required. If I got infected, being a young lad, I could probably fight it off with some antibiotics. Further, we would probably know during the incubation time that I was exposed, so I could get a packet of Cipro and be done with it. Finally, if I did get it, I wasn't going to place anyone in danger by walking around with it until I got treated.<br /><br />But that was just me. I'm sure that I would have taken it if it was required of me by my employer, or if a more virulent, drug-resistant strain came about. I never really thought of any risks because, in that research, I had come to the same conclusion. There just weren't any that were worth me worrying about.<br /><br />On the other hand, if there is ever a release of smallpox, you're goddamn right I'll be at the front of the line to get the vaccine. That stuff is scary... And scarring.Renhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165486823815850422noreply@blogger.com