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On The Light Side
CDC
Epidemic Intelligence Service Alumni Association Annual Haiku Contest
Given the popularity of the recent Haiku Contest we
carried out here at the newsletter, The Epidemiology Monitor has
agreed to help sponsor the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Alumni
Association (EISAA) annual haiku contest. The EISAA contest is carried
out differently than the newsletter contest was. The submitted haiku
are entered into different subject categories and voters select their
favorites within categories and overall. Some of the haiku submitted
by readers of the Epidemiology Monitor were included in this year’s
EISAA contest. Voting closed on April 26.
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Group 1: Global
and Domestic Health |
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A mosquito bite
A devastated mother
Microcephaly |
Can't eat or go
out
Without Thinking of Disease
We know too much now |
Stool, rectums,
vomit
For enteric pathogens
I have swabbed them all |
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Ugandan forest
Aedes-bit Americas
It's a Zika world |
CDC mantra
Disease is bad, vax is good
We need ACA! |
When drugs leave
cities,
OxyContin turn heroin,
Treatment not prisons |
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Mosquitoes bring
bad,
Malaria Zika Den-
Gue, can DEET save day? |
Loose poop all
over
The globe; Vaccines save children, Make world more equal |
Many infants saved
Success of safe sleep campaigns
But more work needed |
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Fugees and
migrants
Bolster our nation;
Fear and ignorance won't win |
HPV vaccines
Too good to be true? No. But.
Still we plead for use |
A mother's tears
roll,
The sun sets in the distance.
Darkness falls on all. |
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D.A. Henderson
He's gone now, just like smallpox
Global health hero |
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Group 2: EIS
Training, EPI-AIDs, Clearance Process |
Numbers have
meaning
Each a story, a person
Beyond statistics |
I stare at the
page.
En dash, em dash, or hyphen?
My decision – guess. |
Fifty miles or
more?
More paperwork fore you go.
Field EISOs! |
Only two months
left
Until EIS is done
A bittersweet end |
Hair thinning,
eyes red
En dash, em dash, or hyphen?
Will they notice? Yes! |
Bats and skunks
and dogs
Will the algorithm tell
Need for rabies shots? |
EISO days
Gone but not forgotten fray
Field epi always |
EIS is gold
Opportunity to serve
Epi is my life |
Em dash or en dash
Or possibly a hyphen
These are things we learn |
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What is my SOCO?
Can I draw an Epi Curve?
Will I meet my CALS? |
Epi aids galore!
And I remain in my cube
but there's a window |
Hours and hours
This 5 minute PowerPoint
Has taken from me |
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Two by two table
Odds ratio close to one
Next hypothesis? |
EISOs are
bigly! Really, really great,
Really the best epis |
Shoe-worn Langmuir
sleuths
Design, conduct, analyze
Epi-Aids save lives |
The haikus that were
presented in groups three and four were those that were entered in our
own haiku contest.
To view those please click here:
http://epimonitor.net/Epi-Haiku-Contest-Update2.htm
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Group 5: Other
Public Health, Science, and Concerns |
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Vaccine denial
Climate change skepticism
Science, we need you! |
A warming planet
Polar bears just seen in zoos
Stop this nonsense now |
EIS nears end.
Excitement turns to panic
What do you mean, "freeze?!" |
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Jobs, Presenting,
Jobs,
Skit Night, Jobs, Q&A, Jobs,
Recruiting, Jobs,...JOBS! |
Digging the hole
deep
Ostrich buries head in sand
Predators take note |
Eighteen percent
cut
Making America Great?
What will happen here? |
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ACA has helped
Our future uncertain now
'Tis Trump-landia'... |
Healthy People,
where?
In a Healthy World, how?
Prevention funds slashed. |
America First
Who needs diplomats, when we
Have bombs, guns, and walls? |
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Good health for U.S.
That is our sole intention
So...why so hard now...? |
Empty ski-lift chairs
Looming in foggy warm air,
Over cold spring snow. |
Precision-run fun
Rational-paced sneakers
Win every time |
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Poison politics
Threaten our greatest mission
To keep us all well |
Vaccines, clear
water
Go away; Fossil fuels stink,
'Merica first, yay? |
I listened to half
of Workingman's Dead before
I reached Clifton Road. |
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Global health
grenade
Trump threatens to pull the pin
Live? Or just a dud |
Disparity looms
Equity, Equality
A chance to serve ALL |
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