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Meningitis, Ebola and Blastomycosis? Oh My!

Jonathan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:12:54 -0800

It’s a good thing you aren’t a hypochondriac.

Congrats on the new job!

That sounds like Brian's job...

Erin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:09:42 -0800

Brian has also picked up a little bit of medical stuff from his job. Maybe you can visit their “diseases explained” website. :) I think they recently sold that back to the creator… not sure.

Officially a UW Employee

kirstin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:13:42 -0800

Yesterday was my first day at work. I have a colorful UW ID, a bus pass, and a stack of benefits paperwork to prove it. I even had my first day of training of the software I’ll be the sysadmin for and it seems pretty easy and intuitive thus far. The hard part is the disease dictionary. I was looking through the list of diseases and was recognizing a good 70% of them… standard things like TB, Meningitis, Hanta Virus, Ebola, Chicken pox, Measles, Polio, the laundry list of STDs, and then a whole bunch of WTFs that just sound ominous. Blastomycosis?