Viruses

Ewwwness! We are going over viruses in biology and I had to do a presentation on rabies. Did you know that rabies can cause hydrophobia? When the person is infected, they may not show symptoms for up to 20 days and then they get a headache and stuff. Eventually, the brain becomes inflamed and causes uncontrollable muscle spasms, frothing due to overactive spit glands, and the person becomes easily excitable. This muchly reminds me of that movie...Quarantine, I think it was called. It was filmed kind of like Cloverfield, but it wasn't as good and the main character kept freaking out. 

Anyway, today we watched a video on the Small Pox virus, which was actually eliminated. And guess what? An astounding number of people get HPV every hour. I forgot the number, but it was big. Isn't that just stupid? If you know what HPV is and how it is transferred, then you'd understand why I think it's stupid. According to the one who gave the presentation and her sources, there are only vaccinations for 4 of the strains of HPV and they can only be given to girls. Sheesh. 

So, now that I've ranted a little bit, I shall go do something else. Bye!!!