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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It’s about time that the Connecticut economy gets a boost.
Emperor Malloy will be glowing about it in his next debate!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
D’oh! Meant to include you to #45.
Meanwhile I lost everything on my Marine Corps suction pups.
Yep can’t wait for that comet to take out this planet.
I think the cute one just winked at me.
She is hot!
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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