Rickettsia akari
Overview
 
Rickettsia akari is a species of Rickettsia
Rickettsia
Rickettsia is a genus of non-motile, Gram-negative, non-sporeforming, highly pleomorphic bacteria that can present as cocci , rods or thread-like . Being obligate intracellular parasites, the Rickettsia survival depends on entry, growth, and replication within the cytoplasm of eukaryotic host cells...

which causes rickettsialpox
Rickettsialpox
Rickettsialpox is an illness caused by bacteria of the Rickettsia genus . Physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles Pomerantz played major roles in identifying the etiology of the disease after an outbreak in 1946 in a New York City apartment complex, documented in medical...

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After a 1946 outbreak of a rickettsial-type disease at an apartment complex in Kew Gardens, Queens
Kew Gardens, Queens
Kew Gardens is a triangular-shaped neighborhood in central Queens bounded to the north by the Jackie Robinson Parkway , to the east by Van Wyck Expressway and 131st Street, to the south by Hillside Avenue, and to the west by Park Lane, Abingdon Road and 118th Street...

, an investigation was performed to identify the source of the infections. The incinerators in the buildings were not operated on a daily basis, leading to a buildup in food waste and attracting mice that were rampant throughout the building.
Quotations

The great advantage of abstinence education is that it introduces teenagers to hypocrisy at an early age.

Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, Arborophila|Arborophilia (2005)

Let the fundamentalist Christians raise losers. I want my teenagers to have as much sex as they can possibly get.

Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, Arborophila|Arborophilia (2005)

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Jacob Appel|Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, The Replacement (2006)

Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists", Man and Superman (1903)

Usez, n'abusez point […] L'abstinence ou l'excès ne fit jamais d'heureux.

Translation: Use, do not abuse […] Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

 
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