Looking for something exciting and new to panic about? Look no further!
I especially like this snippet of advice from the “brown bear” page:
Never intentionally feed a bear: Monitor your bird feeders, never put meat scraps or fruit in your compost bin, and put garbage out in a bear-resistant container on pick-up day.
Bear-resistant container?! I can’t find anything strong enough to keep a raccoon out of our trashcans — what’s going to stop a freakin’ bear?! I guess it’s a good thing that bears rarely put in an appearance in the middle of a busy city. 😉
Fortunately, few of these beasties enjoy living in this part of the country, but I doubt that’s very comforting to readers in more southern climes.
That hantavirus has an impressively high fatality rate, one out of three. Rabies, untreated, is the most deadly though – 100%, which is higher than AIDS. (A small amount of people infected with the AIDS virus don’t get the disease, and another small amount go into remission and no longer need treatment, so it isn’t as bad as some diseases out there, believe it or not!)
Rabies is right up there, but there’s one disease that’s even worse. A sexually transmitted disease that’s 100% fatal, and that the entire human race, and nearly every other creature more complex than an amoeba, has. It’s called life. 😉
You’re insulting Amoebas with that statement, they’re alive too! I’ll have to call the National Association for the Advancement of Amoebas (NAAA) and report this blog!
I excepted amoebas because technically they don’t die. The first amoeba is (again, technically) still around, since it reproduces by splitting into two identical amoebas. So nah nanny nah nah! :-p