Thursday, July 07, 2011

A Terrible Disease

Recently, the following internet meme has been making it's way around Facebook. At the time of writing, an enormous number of people around the world have set it as their status!

"Set this as your status for an hour if you or someone you know suffers from Darren Morrissey, a horrific blight that afflicts over 132 people around the world. He is incurable and very contagious. By setting this as your status, you can show your support for all those people affected by this terrible, debilitating disorder. Many people won't set this as their status because they are basically twats."


Look, here's my Facebook feed:




If you click in it, you can see that not only four people have it as their status, but that at least two others have admitted that they suffer from it!

This seems to be a big problem, so I did a little bit of research.

Apparently the first case of Darren Morrissey was diagnosed about 35 years ago in a hospital in Devon. It started as quite a small irritation, but has got bigger and bigger and, in recent years has become a very large problem for it's sufferers indeed.

During my research I discovered the following public awareness poster:



From what I know of Darren Morrissey, I would agree that the advice shown on this poster is sound. Wash your hands. You don't know where he's been!

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