h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

True enough on the syphilis; and there is a question on a number of the infectious conditions contributing to puerperal fever.

The second great locus of infectious and contagious disease of the early colonial era was in the south China sea, the regions developed by especially the Portuguese and subsequently the Dutch East India company, a nortoriously unhealthy climate until the age of modern medicine, impact on Europe contained by maritime quarantine measures.

Something of a medical puzzle on syphilis, closely related to yaws, it may have originated in this same region, but somehow leapfrogged Polynesia to the new world, where it was definitely established by the time of the arrival of the conquistadores, perhaps carried to the new world by Chinese* or Hindu voyagers of the 7th through 9th centuries CE.




*Though long controversial, 7th century voyages by Chinese traders to central America were definitely established in the 1970s & 1980s by archival discoveries of log books and manifests out of Szechuan China taken together with Szechuan China crop records showing they'vè had the central American chile pepper in cultivatio ever since.

Historicity as well established as the somewhat later Viking explorations of the new world.

The are still some controversies on possible Hindu and Cambodian contacts of the same period but strong significant reason to consider such contacts occured.

Doctor rat indeed! I'm fine with friendly rats. That they can detect disease is icing on the .

http://needtoknow.nas.edu/id/challenges/globalization/

1 sneeze can infect a world

Only if you follow through

" 1 sneeze can infect a world" [prof Animal Cjhaos]

That will be good news for hypochondriacs.

Run for the hills!

I'm lazy. I prefer to let the hills run for me.

I'm NOT an hypochondriac, I KNOW I'm poorly

Fine. Remind me not to sneeze on you.

Mrs Hill won't like that she is a big girl

if your sneeze can reach me Paul, you must have a big conk mate

I was being highpothetical in a lowkey way.

>grins< I misread "sneeze's conversation"

We could talk of the joys of snuff

that's a fantasy creature fairy-nuff

Nuff said

Prof >I'm NOT an hypochondriac, I KNOW I'm poorly

My favorite tombstone epitaph: 'I TOLD you I was sick!'

F S

Can Dr. Rat also be trained to hunt truffles?

I know rats have been trained to sniff out concealed land mines.

So... I do a quick google, as you do..

And find Truffles, the rat.
http://youtu.be/TJdGgasghxA


I also found rat shaped truffles, but this has an actual rat. A fancy rat.

I'm told they use German Shepherds for truffle hunting now. Because the stupid ate too many of the truffles they found