Fw: [NH-L] The Night After Christmas

[Peg Allen]

>From the nursing history list (!!!) - I thought public health folks & AHEC

partners would enjoy!  Sure hope it isn't copyrighted...

Happy holidays - Peg

Margaret (Peg) Allen, MLS-AHIP   mailto:pegallen at tznet.com
Resource Librarian Consultant for Cinahl Information Systems, Inc.
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From: Margie <ke4uef at MIA.BELLSOUTH.NET>
To: <NURHIS-L at UCONNVM.UConn.Edu>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:34 AM
Subject: [NH-L] The Night After Christmas



> The Night After Christmas

>

> 'Twas the night after Christmas and all through the kitchen

> Little creatures were stirring up potions bewitching.

> Salmonellae were working in gravy and soup,

> In the hopes they could turn it to poisonous goop!

> Clostridia were nestled all snug in the ham,

> While Hepatitis A viruses danced in the yam.

> Little John with his Gobots and Mary in her cap,

> Had just settled down for a long overdue nap.

> When down in their guts there arose such a clatter

> They sprang from their beds to see what was the matter.

> They ran to the bathroom, threw open the door

> Too late! Now their mother is cleaning the floor.

> Wash your hands before cooking! Put your food away quick!

> Or that jolly old food germ we know as Saint Sick

> With his eight tiny microbes will ruin the feast

> As they make their toxins. He calls out to each beast:

> "Now Hepatitis! Now Staph and Perfringens;

> We'll punish those humans for holiday binges!

> On Botulinum! E. Coli! Shigella!

> Go get 'em Amoeba! Work fast, Salmonella!

> If those humans can't learn to handle food right,

> A Merry Christmas they'll have, then a long, sleepless

>   night!"

>                  Anonymous