Children have fun with deadly diseases
June 28, 2007 at 9:20 am by Trista Edwards in Randomly Noted“I will trade you my staph infection for your tuberculosis.”
“I don’t have any tuberculosis, but I will trade you SARS for your staph infection.”
This could be something you hear kids on the playground saying in a rousing swap of disease trading cards. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have created a set of disease trading cards in an effort to get kids interested in science and health. The cards display a photo and information about the card’s disease to inform children of each illness.
Some of the cards’ more graphic pictures include a large, open sore for ulcers, a suspended, naked infant for tetanus, and a raw, infected mouth and throat for diphtheria. You would think with some of these startling images that parents would shy their children away from the cards, but the CDC can’t keep them on its shelf.
The CDC gives the cards away for free at its visitor center and has not been able to keep the cards in stock. Pictures of the cards are available for download at the CDC’s website, www.cdc.gov.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
CDC disease trading cards for kids?
That’s just wrong on so many levels.
June 29th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I looked at the trading cards online. I do believe that the dead zebra is my favorite.