EpiFunny’s of Mine

we’re in our epidemiology cycle and today’s topic was anthrax.. also called black death,black bane..
well anyway, prof popov handled anthrax so many times that it’s like a joke to him,here’s something that u’d rarely find in a textbook:

-in the gulf war,there was a treaty between the major powers that they will not use biotechnology as weapons(the americans were afraid that russia would help iraq to gain it)

-compared to normal weapons,bio weapons such as genetically modified anthrax bacilli, are much more expensive,due to some technical difficulties(u’d had to vaccinate all of ur own soldiers,or equip them with with special gears)so,if u’re thinking what i was thinking,that is,why didn’t the americans use any bio-or chemical weapons on afghanistan and iraq like they did in vietnam(rambo didn’t had a a part in the war,it was “agent orange”),which they lost anyway,it’s because of the money, not because of their human side(they happily bombed the afghans and iraqis)

-when the prof wanted to show us some electron microscope of the bacillus in action(they were in an envelope),he mockingly blew the envelope’s contents towards us(if u’re an american, u’d be jumping down the windows)which was hilarious.

-in the normal form(not the genetically modified one)anthrax is not as contagious as we think, usually an infected person are just given antibiotics and treated in an isolated room.

that’s the highlights, most of the time, the prof would explain things in russian while we were making a dedication poster(like the umno one, but we combined our imaginations and made a pas and dap version of it)

we went home early and stop by at ramstor to buy sushi..which was much2 cheaper than yakitoria i think..heh(i’m crazy bout sushi,i luv ramstor)
owh yeah…wal mart(the one that sold bullets used in the columbine massacre) is bidding to buy ramstor chain of stores,if walmart wins, they’ll be some changes in ramstors all over russia.hopefully to the better.

later that evening I went to the dean’s office for some matter and I saw lots of ambulance gathering at ploshad pavshik vastov.i dunno what’s the occasion but there were lot’s of them…I think all of Volgograd’s finest ambulance were gathered…

owh yeah,yesterday I got a big kad raya from my family and as I promised to someone,i’ll share it with others..though the raya festive feeling had waned over the years,but a kad raya always cheers me up.

antrax bacilli in action

try counting the ambulance

the kad raya beside my 19″ monitor

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