DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

As reported in Grok (Education - 10/00), the Industry Standard’s “special reports” magazine, the Center for Disease Control has come up with a novel way to teach kids about health risks: Infectious Diseases Trading Cards

According to the article, the CDC pulled the cards off its site last year to “tweak the design” — but we note that five months have gone by and the CDC’s site says the cards are unavailable at this time.

But wait — there is a light (albeit sickly and, if we had to guess, contagious) at the end of this tunnel. The CDC merely commented out its directory of PDF files, making the retrieval of the trading cards a trivial matter.

CDC Infectious Diseases Trading Cards:
Anthrax, Antibiotic Resistance, Avian Flu, Cryptosporidiosis, Cyclospora, Dengue, Ebola, E. Coli, Hantavirus, Hepatitis B, HIV, Lyme Disease, Meningitis, Mumps, Pinkeye, Plague, Salmonella, Rabies, Smallpox, Strep A