Posted on 10/21/2014 1:16:46 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Ebola plush toys fly off the shelf for Connecticut company
It may be the only time you will find these words in the same sentence: "Ebola" and "Add to Wishlist."
Giantmicrobes Inc., which makes a line of plush toys based on viruses and other microscopic organisms, has sold out its entire Ebola stock, including the small Ebola doll for $9.95, a Gigantic Ebola doll for $29.95 and an Ebola Petri Dish toy for $14.95, according to the company's website.
"Since its discovery in 1976, Ebola has become the T. Rex of microbes," says the Stamford, Connecticut-based maker of the "uniquely contagious toy" on its website, which promotes them as gag gifts that also have educational value.
With the latest Ebola outbreak, which already killed more than 4,500 people, mostly in West Africa, customers have snapped up the toy, which looks like half a pretzel.
"You do not want to get Ebola," warns the website. "A short incubation period of 2 to 21 days presages symptoms which include fever, aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, stomach pain, vomiting, and both internal and external bleeding. And then, for between 50-90 percent of victims, death."
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The new Ebola plush toy should come with this bumper sticker that is sure to also make people fell warm and fuzzy (sarc) ...
My kid would be the one asking the President to sign his toy ebola.
I don’t know. Not many toys beat the Obama Chia head, or the Tauntaun sleeping bag, or alien facehugger baby pacifier.
I forgot the “crib dribbler”. I gave it to a new, firstime mom, and she was absolutely horrified. The joke worked great for everybody but her.
Can’t wait for the mechanical Ebola toy. It sweats and vomit. Perhaps it can talk “ If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola”
Like I said many many many times: If something is promoted enough people will buy anything, including a foreign born radical Muslim for President.
Did they come out with the Ebola playset yet?
How about that? A toy company website that gives as much Ebola information as the CDC.
Dangit, I've had a cough for three days now - it *hurts* to laugh!
Ever seen the horsehead pillow over at kropserkel.com?
What a good little Hoth rebel trooper! Watch out for Wampas!
In many ways, as long as people are willing to spend $30 on such a piece of utter worthlessness, maybe we aren’t in the recession everyone claims.
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Cthulhu Claus
Should have made this a talking toy...pull the string, and it recites a different symptom every time!
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