Don't play with the bats
Every student at UT received the following email several days ago:
"If you touched a bat near E.P. Schoch (EPS) on Tuesday, September 27,
2005, you need to immediately contact the Austin/Travis Country Health
Services at 972-6055 or The Texas Department of State Health Services at
254-778-6744. If your phone contact is outside normal working hours,
please leave a message and phone number. State "you were exposed to a
bat Tuesday at UT-Austin and were advised to contact them." These
messages are monitored and calls returned every few hours.
If you wish to talk to someone at UT Austin, please page 875-0911."
I cannot stop laughing. I can't decide which part is more alarming: the fact that people actually play with bats or that they are returning these calls *every few hours*. Sounds serious my friends.
In other news, according to the WHO, an Avian Flu Pandemic would likely kill between 50 million and 150 million people. For the record, I do not want to be one of them.
"If you touched a bat near E.P. Schoch (EPS) on Tuesday, September 27,
2005, you need to immediately contact the Austin/Travis Country Health
Services at 972-6055 or The Texas Department of State Health Services at
254-778-6744. If your phone contact is outside normal working hours,
please leave a message and phone number. State "you were exposed to a
bat Tuesday at UT-Austin and were advised to contact them." These
messages are monitored and calls returned every few hours.
If you wish to talk to someone at UT Austin, please page 875-0911."
I cannot stop laughing. I can't decide which part is more alarming: the fact that people actually play with bats or that they are returning these calls *every few hours*. Sounds serious my friends.
In other news, according to the WHO, an Avian Flu Pandemic would likely kill between 50 million and 150 million people. For the record, I do not want to be one of them.