DIS Dads The DIS Dad's Club VII - Oh Peanut Butter...

[dvczerfs]

Ask him if they have a pill that has been breaded and fried

like my wife says about me, " smear some icing on it, he'll it eat!"

 

[KTME]

Interesting. I'm going to say zero chance of infection for a couple of reasons,

1. Zombie infection may not be blood-bourne
From every movie, videogame and TV series that I've seen about Zombies, people get infected from being bitten by a Zombie. This implies a blood-bourne infection (i.e. you get the infection from contact with a Zombie's blood). In general, infectious diseases that are blood bourne are also transmitted by saliva and visa-versa, but I'm not sure that is necessarily true for Zombie-ism. Zombie infection seems to be only spread by biting (similar to rabies), suggesting that the infection is only in the saliva of Zombies. There are many examples in movies, videogames and TV, where even large exposure to the blood of a zombie does not result in disease transmission (most notably in the excellent Walking Dead episode where they covered themselves in Zombie guts to blend in the the other Zombies in order to escape). Suggesting that,

2. Zombie infections are hard to catch
But say you could catch a Zombie infection from the blood of a Zombie, it seems that this infection is really hard to catch. Take two well-studied diseases, Hepatitis B and HIV. It is really easy to catch Hepatitis B. Even small blood exposures can result in infection. But, Zombie infection seems more similar to HIV, which is relatively hard to acquire. Unless you are exposed to significant amounts of blood (splashed in eye, transfusions, etc), your chance of catching HIV is low. In this respect, Zombie infection seems more similar to a hard-to-acquire infection, such as HIV.
And we know from the HIV epidemic that you really can't get HIV infection from mosquitos. I believe that all of those cases of mosquito-transmission have been debunked (shocking that people lie about thier sexual history or IV drug use!). Which leads me to,

3. Mosquitos generally only spread infections of organisms that use mosquitos as part of their life cycle.



This last one is tougher to explain. Mosquitos (or other blood sucking parasites) spread lots of infections, but the infecting organism needs to be able to live and survive in the mosquito, otherwise, it can not reproduce and spread to another animal. See the above figure for details

Clearly, I have spent way too much time on this today!

What happens if the Zombie bites the mosquito then the mosquito bites you? I would play it safe and stock pile up on the deep woods off!!!!

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

As noted before, if it doesn't say Krispy Kreme, it's not a donut **Runs and hided**

But it has to be hot out of the oven. Otherwise, it loses something.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

I'm not sharing.

Awhhhhhhh…
Come on now…

I don't think any red blooded American mosquito would bite a Zombie! So no infection here in the Good Ol' U.S.A.!

Cremate your dead. No bodies, no reanimation, no problem.

I think someone in this club has an ANNOUNCEMENT to make!!

 

[dvczerfs]

I finally got out of my meeting and there were only two pages to catch up on. I am a little disappointed. As far as the announcement.....not me! I am very curious now though.

well, the only thing i can think of is being this is the disdads, someone is going to be a dad again. i know its not me, my wife gave that particular chore up years ago.

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

How about a hint Don?

 

[KTME]

well, the only thing i can think of is being this is the disdads, someone is going to be a dad again. i know its not me, my wife gave that particular chore up years ago.

Not me!

 

[DisDadDoc]

What happens if the Zombie bites the mosquito then the mosquito bites you? I would play it safe and stock pile up on the deep woods off!!!!

I refer you to Points 1, 2 & 3.

Still waiting. You know who you are. Spill it!

Come on, spill it, dude!

My doc told me he'd like to see me loose 60 pounds. I told him I'd like a pony, but I don't think either one of us was going to get our wish.

 

[DisneyFed]

But it has to be hot out of the oven. Otherwise, it loses something.

Unless it has chocolate on it or is filled with Kreme...

 

[Emma's Dad]

How about a hint Don?

Hmmmm... That's Nice..........

 

[Wolfpacklegion]

I'm hungry for a Twinkie???

Rule #2 Double tap

 

[dvczerfs]

come on don, spill it!!

 

[TigerTown]

You guys are killing me with all these posts....I can't keep up!

 

[tutter99]

hmmmm... That's nice..........

i know that is is nice there is an announcement, but what is it!!!!!

 

[Emma's Dad]

Hint : You can find it in a TR... and it's not mine.

 

[tutter99]

On an unrelated note, I just had a bottle of strawberry flavored seltzer water explode all over me. The only other animation fan in my department came over and told me I smell like Lotso!

 

[IamTrike]

It's not the American mosquitoes I'd be worrying about. It those dang commie mosquitoes...

Our lax mosquito borders will ultimately be our downfall.

 

[Emma's Dad]

On an unrelated note, I just had a bottle of strawberry flavored seltzer water explode all over me. The only other animation fan in my department came over and told me I smell like Lotso!

What theater did HE see TS3 in??

 

[AJRitz]

Interesting. I'm going to say zero chance of infection for a couple of reasons,

1. Zombie infection may not be blood-bourne
From every movie, videogame and TV series that I've seen about Zombies, people get infected from being bitten by a Zombie. This implies a blood-bourne infection (i.e. you get the infection from contact with a Zombie's blood). In general, infectious diseases that are blood bourne are also transmitted by saliva and visa-versa, but I'm not sure that is necessarily true for Zombie-ism. Zombie infection seems to be only spread by biting (similar to rabies), suggesting that the infection is only in the saliva of Zombies. There are many examples in movies, videogames and TV, where even large exposure to the blood of a zombie does not result in disease transmission (most notably in the excellent Walking Dead episode where they covered themselves in Zombie guts to blend in the the other Zombies in order to escape). Suggesting that,

2. Zombie infections are hard to catch
But say you could catch a Zombie infection from the blood of a Zombie, it seems that this infection is really hard to catch. Take two well-studied diseases, Hepatitis B and HIV. It is really easy to catch Hepatitis B. Even small blood exposures can result in infection. But, Zombie infection seems more similar to HIV, which is relatively hard to acquire. Unless you are exposed to significant amounts of blood (splashed in eye, transfusions, etc), your chance of catching HIV is low. In this respect, Zombie infection seems more similar to a hard-to-acquire infection, such as HIV.
And we know from the HIV epidemic that you really can't get HIV infection from mosquitos. I believe that all of those cases of mosquito-transmission have been debunked (shocking that people lie about thier sexual history or IV drug use!). Which leads me to,

3. Mosquitos generally only spread infections of organisms that use mosquitos as part of their life cycle.



This last one is tougher to explain. Mosquitos (or other blood sucking parasites) spread lots of infections, but the infecting organism needs to be able to live and survive in the mosquito, otherwise, it can not reproduce and spread to another animal. See the above figure for details

Clearly, I have spent way too much time on this today!

Wow. Only 29 pages in and Chris has ALREADY won the thread.
Brillian analysis my friend, just brilliant!

 

[FreezinRafiki]

Hint : You can find it in a TR... and it's not mine.

The only news / current events we'd find in your TR:
"Moses came down from the mountain today. He had some kind of tablets in his arms..."