Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
I didn't know people still caught this.
Nebraska's mumps outbreak is growing, an expert said on Monday morning, and many of the cases have struck people who were immunized. The state health department now reports 109 possible cases in 18 counties and 32 confirmed cases. Most of them are in southeastern Nebraska, and most of the patients are either between ages 10 and 18 or 35 and 45 years old. Epidemiologists said the outbreak doesn't show any signs of slowing down. [...]
There are 600 suspected mumps cases in Iowa. Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois are also experiencing widespread outbreaks. The mumps epidemic is the nation's first in 20 years.
Hitting previously immunized adults? I don't like the sound of that.
TrackBackY'know, I've never actually heard the song.
Then I would advise that you don't. Because once you do, you'll continue to hear it, inside your head, and not in a good way, over and over and over again.
It's crazymaking.
Posted by: M!tch M!lls at April 18, 2006 07:22 PMSounds a little like the plot from Costner's 'Postman' movie. Not something you'd want any part of.
Posted by: mikefromtexas at April 19, 2006 03:24 AMGotta disagree with M#tch -- I'm almost totally sure I've heard that song -- or anyway have definitely heard the Christmas parody that has a camel carrying the Magi to Jerusalem and singing about "My Humps" -- wasn't the link to that cartoon posted by our very host, like on his other site? -- and anyways, I don't continue to hear it inside my head. I am however continually made crazy in other ways, so I guess it all comes out the same in the end.
Posted by: The Modesto Kid at April 19, 2006 08:00 AM"Mumps" -- Don't the names of classic diseases have a certain ring to them? "Pox", "Measles", "Scarlet Fever." When I go down, I rather it was one of these than something like systemic lupus erythematosus (although the lupus part does sound kind of cool).
Posted by: Charles Watkins at April 19, 2006 10:58 AM