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elephantbitterhead · 5 days ago

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This is from a paper on norovirus transmission; I feature it here because of the kneeling stick figure on the left. Since that's the infected person, I presume he's kneeling because he's vomiting -- what a nice touch.

#Jonathan suggested that kneeling might indicate he's praying for death #I read another paper this morning that was a case study #involving two carpet installers who got norovirus #after installing new carpet in a hospital ward where a norovirus outbreak #had occurred 12 days earlier #the ward had been disinfected at the time #but apparently not well enough #horrible to be reminded that you're never safe from lurking fecal-oral contamination #you can avoid restaurants #you can avoid pre-packaged greens & c.#but then you're just out there installing carpet #and wham #'fecal-oral' is a pretty horrible term #but the paper w/this figure also uses 'vomit-oral' which may actually be worse #paper is Lopman et al. 'Environmental transmission of norovirus gastroenteritis'#in case you're not yet grossed out enough

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