MOS: Leaded Ghost Town, Oklahoma
All that subsurface mining left the ground with a funny resemblance to Kevin McCarthy: unstable and prone to cave-ins.
HEALTH
MOS: MERS
Over 2,300 people were tested for MERS during the months of the World Cup, and there wasn’t a single positive test.
MOS: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
This reflex sometimes means dramatically throwing hot coffee on yourself because there was a noise in the kitchen and your brainstem took the wheel. But hey, at least your (so-called) lizard brain saved you from the whirring blender down the hall.
MOS: A Traditional Cure from Modern China
After a mosquito drops off a few parasites into your system, without treatment it’s almost certainly a matter of time until a light case of death.
MOS: Güevedoces
If without any medical intervention, someone has the outward appearance of two different genders in their life, what gender are they?
MOS: Venetian Ceruse
Beyond the deeply racist bullshit, it likely started with classist implications; lighter skin meant your royal tuchus hadn’t been out laboring in the field like those filthy fucking peasants.
MOS: Viagra
The main factor that correlates with ED is getting older, because nothing good happens to your body after 27 courtesy of existing.
MOS: The Langya Virus
Could my colleagues exercise a little restraint in reporting on interesting new microbes, lest we spur panic about diseases that haven’t infected more than, say, three dozen people since 2018?
MOS: Weird Old Timey Medicine
Erectile dysfunction in the fuck-around-and-find-out era of medicine, they hit you with a little electricity. Where? Anywhere. Get creative.
MOS: The 2022-2023 Monkeypox Outbreak
The outbreak mostly died down, but not without nearly 100,000 cases, 169 confirmed global fatalities as of January 2024, and a heaping dose of panic.