Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Vomiting Larry and Pandemics

Norovirus is one of the nasty ones to currently operate unfettered around the world.  Essentially you spray liquid from both ends and many that are infected get hospitalized while some die.  To learn how easily you can become infected from one of these viruses makes you want to live in a cabin out in the Tetons and to stay away from all people just to avoid this one.  So what do we do?  At a minimum you should scrub your hands repeatedly when coming into contact with objects that are touched often by humans and according to studies the virus can live for days in fabric meaning even that chair in the doctor's office could be the thing to take you down.  So unless necessary, I'm staying out of doctor's offices.

So where does vomiting Larry come into play.  Well, he's an electronic vomit machine modeled after a human to help figure out how easily the virus can spread.  The news about Larry is that someone infected is not only highly contagious but the spread of this disease is very easy and rapid due to the very small amount of virus particles needed to get things going.  Bottom line, stay away from anyone that appears infected with this one or anything that resembles it.

Projectile vomiting machine helps scientist analyze spread of virus.

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