Ticked off

The thing that I sort of already knew but learned again just now is that the "bad" ticks, the deer ticks that can carry Lyme disease, are really quite tiny, which means that the slightly larger one I just discovered on my ankle is a wood tick, and even if I didn't get all of it out (I'm pretty sure I did but it's hard to tell), it's probably just icky and not medically dangerous.

Bordetella

I always (somewhat foolishly, in retrospect) assumed that bordetella, also known as kennel cough, was named that because that's the environment where dogs tend to contract it.  When they're boarded, right?

Yeah, I know.  It's actually named after Jules Bordet, a Belgian microbiologist.  And strictly speaking, it's not even the name of the disease-- it's actually the genus of bacteria containing one of the culprits that cause kennel cough.  So I was wrong in all sorts of clever ways.  Huzzah!