Stream of consciousness

With two midterms this week, one last week and two more next week, we're all just a little out to lunch lately. We're all sleep deprived and giddy. Here are just a few of the thoughts streaming through my head.

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Why in the hell do oysters need a whole virus family all to themselves?! Damn greedy oysters.

Why do we have this giant list of antiviral drugs, when they're barely used in vet med?

E coli is hot stripper pink on MacConkey agar.

Citrobacter rodentium causes EPEC like disease in mice and gerbils. Like laboratory mice. Their genes have been spliced. They're Pinky, they're Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain....

Why is my cat on my shoulder?

Everything causes mastitis. Never look at a cow funny, it'll get mastitis.

Everything causes cancer. Or diarrhea. Those are the options.

So, equine papillomavirus causes papillomas in horses. But equine papillomatosus is caused by bovine papillomavirus. But it's also caused equine sarcoids. Shouldn't equine papillomavirus cause equine papillomatosis? Who names these things?!

PWMS, PRRSV, FeLV, FeSV, CPV-1, CAV-2, ICH, ICTB, E-I-E-I-O....

HERPES! Thank god it's herpes! (This wasn't me, it was a classmate rejoicing at finally getting through the retrovirus section.)

Greasy pig disease... Sounds kinda tasty, actually. Like bacon.

Yersinia pestis is carried by- KUROMI! YOU ARE BLOCKING MY VIEW! GET BACK ON MY SHOULDER!

I'm starting to see a pattern in treatment... 99% of the time, you're either going to give it penicillin or kill it. 

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....So that pretty much sums up where I am these days. Of course, sometimes, if you're lucky, you find out your professors are more or less on the same page. Today, it was our bacteriology professor. I'll leave you with this gem: "Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae... It really does just roll off the tongue. It's very calming to say, it's like bacterial valium. I can almost picture a yogi, sitting on a mountaintop, chanting it....and levitating."