To look life in the face

and to know it for what it is

Occupational hazard

Filed under: Random thoughts — Xiao at 10:56 pm on Wednesday, April 30, 2008

I like the look people show on their faces when I introduce myself as a scientist - especially at a bar, or at a party. Cool! They say, and then start drifting away… Yes, really, it is cool, like some Dan Brown novel, or even Michael Crichton. But today I finally realised the implications of the term 'occupational hazard'. 

Chlamydia psittaci - Hazard group 3 organism:

http://www.walkersafetycabinets.co.uk/hazard.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?highlight=chlamydia%20psittaci&rid=mmed.section.2166#2170

Will need a serology test - hope it was just a cold.