Monday, June 25, 2007

HUMAN HAIROMA VIRUS

I attended a CME (Continuing Medical Education) on HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) vaccination recently at UMMC. It somehow reminded me of the Human Hairoma Virus.

Human what virus? Never heard of it? But of course, the virus does not exist. Human Hairoma Virus, or HHV for short, was “fictionally invented” by yours truly back at IMC (International Medical College), together with a senior whom I was pretty close with. We wrote about HHV in the college’s newsletter, “Med About U”. We even drew cartoon pictures of the virus.

HHV was supposed to cause hairoma (tumour consisting of hair) of the male & female genito-urinary tracts. I think we also included cartoons of what hairomas of the uterus & cervix looked like.

Those were the crazy & care free days…

2 comments:

vagus said...

what batch were you?
i was in IMC too, and wrote for MAU.

kaybee_dino said...

Batch 2/95 with nicholas (saw his wedding pics in ur site).

Used to go by the nick Dino in Med Abt U (but cartoons mostly, rather than articles).