The good: Bird Flu has not returned to europe on the wings of the returning migrants, contrary to doomsday scenarios.
And the.. weird: Morgellan’s Disease, which sounds like bad science fiction– little fibers extending from the victims’ skin, pain, crawling sensations, psychological disturbances, with no known cause and no cure in sight. This appears to be real– here is a site devoted to it. Hat tip Prairie Mary, who shares an interest in such things with me…