If you're feeling a bit under the weather, you may have been bitten by a bug. When I attended the joint Southern Chapter and MAC MLA meeting in 2006, I took a tour of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. The CDC gift shop sold stuffed animals that looked like the flu virus. I hadn't planned to do any Christmas shopping at the CDC but I found some lovely things for my young nieces.

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