Songs of Sickness

By at 6:56 am Monday, Nov 29

Reader Dougal Campbell says,
The BoingBoing post about food safety tunes reminded of of something I heard on NPR a while back. Doctor Helen Davies at the University of Pennsylvania creates songs to help her students remember facts about microbiology. One of my favorite bits (song to the tune of the Beatles' "Yesterday"):

"Leprosy,
Bits and pieces falling off of me,
But it isn't the toxicity,
It's just neglect of injury.

Link to AMA News story, and there's another article here: Link

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