DiClaudio got the guide idea researching infectious and tropical diseases for a medical publisher in Philadelphia where he's worked for more than two years. His reporting has infected him with a "certain amount" of new worry, although he says most of the conditions he details "happen elsewhere in the world to more unfortunate people. Hypochondria is a First World problem. People have the luxury of being hypochondriacal as opposed to actually being sick." But, hey, we've got real potential problems here ... like our seafood. Nausea? Headache? Check out page 164—amnesic shellfish poisoning, "in which you eat some bad scallops and then forget you had anything to eat at all." It's enough to make you lose your appetite. Though if you do, you may have bacillary angiomatosis, cyclic vomiting syndrome or furious rabies.
susannah_breslin
I'm lost
June 2005
NOV 08, 2005 11:21 AM