Category Archives: Dishes from the Sixties

Results of The Assassin Bug’s First Year

FIRST, LETS START OUT WITH A GRATUITOUS PHOTO OF OUR PATRON SAINT, BRIGITTE BARDOT, DRESSED UP LIKE A DISCO BALL

The crazy racist nutcase who attracts the most visitors to our website.

Frankly, I would have thought that Sophia Loren seekers would far outnumber those looking for Mlle. Bardot, but apparently the public is more attracted to the outrageous than the accomplished.

In our first year, we had 23,112 hits. Our most viewed post, other than whatever was on the home page was this picture of Brigitte, with 9,585 hits. No other single post had over 1,000 hits, though the Chagas’ Disease Primers (there are more to come!) did add up to some reasonable numbers. On another positive note, the Algarrobina Cocktail post was fairly popular.

It’s been fun to write this, and I and the entire editorial staff look forward to another year of writing the Assassin Bug.

Our managing editor, pictured below , has asked me to post the following warning.

Demonstrating fine palpation technique“Now listen here! We will only continue to post  pictures of ’60s dishes if you read our public health posts!”

Wishing You a Healthy New Year!

SOON TO BE INCLUDED IN OBAMACARE!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jack Palance, stuck on the Mongol Plains for Thanksgiving, is unable to find a turkey, and takes a bite of Anita Ekberg instead.

If you missed Marilyn Monroe dressed as a Puritan, click here.

Happy Thanksgiving

Here is another tasty dish for you, vegetarians and vegans be damned.

Here, Tommy, speak into the microphone.

(If I’m not mistaken, this is Sarah Palin-style hunting. )

An Entrement

After the last post, I need to reset my mental screensaver.

Bartonella henselae

otherwise known as cat-scratch fever....

Gratuitous post? No alerting astute readers to the upcoming series of posts on some truly serious diseases related to cat-scratch fever.

Sophia and Marcello discuss Chagas’ Disease

1962: A hopeful Mastroianni and Loren discuss their hopes and wishes for a Chagas' -Free world before Marcello dies. Alas, Marcello did not live to see that day, but apparently, Ms. Loren has every intention of doing so.

Marcello: Uno delle cose piú spaventosi di questi “chirimachas” é la loro abitudine di nascondersi in interstizi, e uscire solo di notte. Puoi stare in letto, svegliata, e non puoi addormentarti perche stai pensando che ogni fessura, che ogni interstizio, ogni spazio stretto abbia qualcosa misteriosa nascosta dentro…

While You’re Waiting for the Next Post…

Have another dish from the ’60s.

It's the hat.

After the last post, we figured you could use this

At least if you are a male, heterosexual, francophile parasitologist

It turns out that Ms. Bardot will be an imporant figure in a future post actually relevant to the work of this blog....

A Chagas’ Disease Primer: Part 3

If you wish to read the Chagas’ Disease primer in order, click here to go to Part 1 and follow the links.

Life Cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi
Below is the life cycle of T. cruzi.

Countless medical and veterinary students have been up late nights cursing life cycles, trying to remember the difference between Strongyloides stercoralis, Strongyles vulgaris, and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus . Parasitologists (at least male, heterosexual parasitologists), however, would rather look at complicated life cycles than pictures of Anita Ekberg in her prime.

The recommendation of this blog is to read this and get familiar with it. You don’t need to memorize it to understand Chagas’ disease. (Click on the diagram for a larger, more legible view.)

As far as life cycles go, it’s relatively uncomplicated. Write to us if you have any questions. Thanks to the CDC for the diagram.