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It’s the Thursday before Finals Week. Oh boy, oh boy.

I’ve been up since 6am because I had to do some last minute studying for my Immunology class; we had our third midterm today (instead of a final for next week) that, thank God, wasn’t cumulative. I did pretty well considering I was caring less and less as today approached.

Grades:
Midterm 1 – 89% (40% of grade)
Midterm 2 – 72% (40% of grade)
Midterm 3 – 86% (20% of grade)

This means I have at least a ‘B-’, but I’m really hoping for a ‘B’ since I improved. I’m really hating myself now for slacking off for the second midterm because I know I could have done well if I had tried… then maybe I would have a ‘B+’ or something. Now I’m just happy I don’t have another ‘C’ in a class I could have done well in and that I have one class down and two more to go!

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I love STDs (Part 3 of 3: Everything Else)

Crabs:

Scabies:

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I love STDs (Part 2 of 3: Viral)

Herpes:

Molluscum contagiosum:

Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus:

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I love STDs (Part 1 of 3: Bacterial)

Chlamydia:

“The Syph”:

Donovanosis (a Donovan I wouldn’t want to meet):

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A little fun for everyone:

Bot flies are very interesting. They lay their eggs on a vector host, such as a mosquito. When a mosquito lands on a mammal and inserts its proboscis into the skin to start feeding, the host’s body heat activates the eggs, and they detach from the mosquito and slide into the mammal host’s skin, usually underneath. Then the eggs incubate, hatch, and the larvae/maggots live just right under the skin of the mammal. Most of the time it looks like a whitehead (zit) because the maggots need a hole in order to obtain oxygen. One can remove the maggot by placing Vaseline or duct tape over the hole to cause the maggot to surface (because it wants to breathe), then quickly removing it with tweezers. Another way is to put a piece of meat over the maggot-hole and allow it to crawl its way into the piece of beef/pork/chicken/other meat and out of the original host’s skin.

FUN!

Here’s an awesome video of removal (warning: not for the squeamish!):

And a nice picture of an eye (Lop, this one’s for you):

[explosions in the sky]

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