Status Updates From The Orange Man and Other Na...

"San Francisco, at any rate, was the scene of the first American epidemic. The epidemic began with the discovery of a dead Chinese in the rat-infested basement of the Globe Hotel in Chinatown on March 6, 1900" (210) oh boy

"And the promiscuous tattoo needle has over the years produced almost as many cases of serum hepatitis as it has epidermal declarations of patriotism and filial love." (163)

"In 1961, a New Jersey osteopath infected some forty patients by not bothering to autoclave or otherwise sterilize the syringe he used for drug injections. More recently, in 1909, a girl was infected in a Larchmont jewelry store when she had her ears pierced with an unwashed communal punch." (163)

"The Punta Gorda epidemic came to the attention of the United States Public Health Service by way of a request for help from an epidemiologist on the staff of the Florida State Board of Health named James Bond." (102) named what now