Typhoid Purduey (Not as catchy as Mary)

Similar to the real life Typhoid Mary, a woman at Purdue University contracted Typhoid in a foreign country and brought it to the US.  She MAY have infected several people at Purdue University, but no numbers have been released yet. People are being quarantined.

The scariest part is that for college kids, you almost HAVE to eat in the cafeteria.  Most people expect to die because of the terrible quality of the food itself, NOT because someone tainted it with Typhoid.  That’s just science.

It looks like I have to start:

The 2013 Disease Countdown

1.  The 2013 FLU season

2.  The Norovirus (Stomach Flu)

3.  Typhoid

The *Almost* Zombie Apocalypse: The Plague Ship Part 2 – It happened again!

You might remember the original article about a contaminated crew ship, and it looks like it happened again.  On The Queen Mary 2, several people came down with what the experts are saying is a Norovirus, which has come on strong this flu season.  Hundreds of passengers fell sick.  Most simply self-quarantined, and basically shat their 4,700 dollar ticket far down the toilet.

I think my list requires a serious update:

1.  Pertussis – “Whooping Cough”
2.  Fatal rash caused by staph infection
3.  “Flesh Eating Bacteria”, also a staph infection
4.  The Bubonic Plague
5.  Ebola
6.  Capnocytophaga – Woman lost hands and feet from dog saliva
7.  Untreatable Gonorrhea
8.  Kid died from a brain destroying ameoba, found in a lake
9.  West Nile Virus
10.  Hantavirus
11.  Rabies
12.  Typhus
13.  Legionnaires Disease
14.  New Jersey Superbug
15.  Popcorn Lung
16.  Saudi Arabian SARS
17.  Spinal Meningitis (Caused by fungus)
18.  Brain Eating Amoebas (in Pakistan)
19.  San Quentin Chicken Pox
20.  The Far Rockaway Cough, and the various NY Sandy related diseases
21.  The Excessive Norovirus

This is a pretty intense list for 5 months of serious tracking, and there are still 2 more days left in this year!

The *Almost* Zombie Apocalypse: The Plague Ship

Holy crap!  The end of the world is nigh.  Now scary would this be?  A Carnival Cruise ship was contaminated with a Norovirus vomiting bug.  Estimates are 400 were sickened, although the official word s only 6.  Can you imagine this?  You want to get away but it takes the better part of a year to save up some extra cash.  “A cruise is cheap” you think, plus you can sail on the relaxing ocean and eat and drink all day.  Sounds like a paradise…until everyone starts dropping like flies, and vomiting everywhere.  If you are a paranoid lunatic like me, you are convinced some viral outbreak has been released on board, and it is only a matter of time before you are struck down.  The obvious choice?  To self-quarantine, and zombie movie caliber preparation.

There was a game released last year entitled “Dead Island”.  It is a beach resort that has been overrun by a zombie plague.  You play a character that in immune to this particular virus.  A sequel was just released.  The setting?  A cruise ship.  Yup.  My thoughts exactly.

I’m just giving you the dots.  It’s your job to connect them.