Grab the nearest book.Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your blog along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
ha ha... K, the book is New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People... no joke, it was the closest!
"In Vietnam the main foci of malaria are in the hill and mountainside forests, the vectors being A. maculatus, which breeds in exposed hillside streams, and A. balabacensis, which lives in sunlit standing collections of water. Removal of the forests' shade created new breeding sites for these mosquitoes. The fighting in Vietnam prevented the NAS committee from doing research on the ground in the highlands, but when the group flew over the deforested mountain areas, they saw the kind of landscape typically colonized by these two efficient vectors. And American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam highland forests were indeed severely afflicted with malaria, the attach rate in the units being as high as 53 cases per 1,000 troops per day."
That oughta teach you to tag me! :) And, I am not tagging anyone else because you've all been tagged and I don't know anyone else on here yet!
7 years ago
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Why in God's name would anyone associate Tapeworms to Jewish Grandmothers? Odd but amusing!
Because Scandanavian fisherman came to the US lake region where they used the lake as an outhouse while fishing infecting the native population with a fish tapeworm. The fish they caught was sold in NY. There the Jewish housewives bought the fish and made something like fish meatballs which were boiled until done. They way they knew if the balls were done was by tasting them. By eating the raw fish they unknowingly infected themselves with the tapeworm.
See, Jewish grandmothers and tapeworms all together now! Fun stuff.
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