krisalyssa
krisalyssa OP t1_je8nuw9 wrote
Reply to comment by booyahachieved3 in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
Oh, that makes sense. I always imagined the people coding these things calling over the cubicle walls, “Hey, Janet, you’ll never guess what happened again!”
krisalyssa OP t1_je8j4lz wrote
Reply to comment by TheEnforcer246 in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
At least twice, I’d guess, since there’s “initial encounter” and “subsequent encounter”.
Probably not very often, though, because there isn’t a code for “somebody tell this person to stay away from turtles”.
krisalyssa OP t1_je8hp8c wrote
Reply to comment by lowlife9 in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
DO NOT WANT
krisalyssa OP t1_je8f189 wrote
Reply to comment by FrankenWaifu in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
If I had a nickel for every time someone has gotten tularemia from aerosolized rabbit, I’d have a small number of nickels, which isn’t much but it’s weird that it’s happened more than once.
krisalyssa OP t1_je8esfi wrote
Reply to comment by MidnightRaver76 in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
A21 is the code for tularemia, but the transmission vector is not coded for, unlike W29.22XD, “struck by turtle, subsequent encounter“.
krisalyssa OP t1_je8edw2 wrote
Reply to comment by tealjag in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
Well, you’re probably not going to be using a lawnmower in the woods, so probably.
krisalyssa OP t1_je8e2ze wrote
Reply to comment by kurrpy in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
I don’t. We were watching an episode of Alone, where one of the contestants caught a porcupine but discovered upon cleaning it that it was infected with tularemia. I was curious if the meat would be safe if properly cooked, so I looked it up.
And that, kids, is how I met the phrase “the only place in the world where documented cases of tularemia resulted from lawn mowing”.
krisalyssa OP t1_je87slh wrote
Reply to comment by woodkm in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
The actual phrasing in the Wikipedia article is “in a lawnmower” which, while technically correct, sounds a little stilted to me.
The oddest part for me is that apparently it’s happened more than once. I mean, sure, a brush hog doesn’t discriminate, but here in the burbs rabbits run from push mowers. I’d expect a tractor with a brush hog makes a lot more noise. Though I suppose it’s also faster.
krisalyssa t1_je7sy62 wrote
Reply to comment by hexadeciball in eli5 What do blood labs do with your blood after they have tested it? by ratboy_r97
krisalyssa t1_jabh9n8 wrote
Reply to comment by BurnOutBrighter6 in ELI5: What is Radar Cross Section in stealth fighters? by ChaosRider37
I don’t know that I’d call 10 square feet “tiny”, but it is a lot smaller than the spatial cross section of a stealth fighter along any axis.
krisalyssa t1_j9dwh6w wrote
Reply to comment by M8asonmiller in eli5 how do people with names that use non-english characters decide the spelling of their romanized name? by [deleted]
That was something that annoyed me in the pilot episode of The West Wing. One of the characters is loudly complaining that the New York Times crossword puzzle misspelled the name of the Libyan leader at the time, Muammar Gaddafi. Unless you’re writing it in Arabic script, there is no one right spelling.
krisalyssa t1_j796adm wrote
Reply to TIL the number of people who identify as Native American on the US Census increased by 86% from 2010 to 2020. by substantial-freud
2010 to 2020 is only a 0.5% increase, not 86%.
krisalyssa t1_j6lqmuy wrote
Reply to comment by OwlrageousJones in ELI5: when people give up red meat for lent, why do they always eat fish instead? Aren't chicken and turkey white meats too? by Inanimatepony
And the fruit bats… and the breakfast cereals….
krisalyssa OP t1_jec16dy wrote
Reply to comment by steemboat in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa
Yes.