MAKE: CDC-Disease Cards

How do you get interested in complicated, life threatening contagious microbiology? Well, the CDC thought that your tax dollars would best be spent by developing a line of infectious disease trading cards. Yep, thats right, everything from zebras dying of anthrax to children plagued by polio can now be swapped and traded like baseball cards. Instead of RBI averages, we suppose they will display casualties in “megadeaths”. Maybe a little disease and petulance is what our educational system needs to boost interest in the sciences.
(hat tip: MAKE)