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Ebola plush toys are big sellers - Magical Realist - Oct 23, 2014
STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- "Ebola plush toys have been selling so fast in response to this year's outbreak that a Connecticut manufacturer, Giantmicrobes Inc., can't keep them in stock.
The company, which was founded a decade ago, makes stuffed toys based on the appearance of microbes like Ebola, Chicken pox, bed bugs, and even non-harmful microscopic organisms things like brain and red blood cells.
The items are meant to be educational tools for young children, Laura Sullivan, vice president of operations, told CBS News.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/10/22/Ebola-plush-toys-are-big-sellers/4801414019249/#ixzz3GzVr5AIv
RE: Ebola plush toys are big sellers - cluelusshusbund - Oct 23, 2014
(Oct 23, 2014 06:44 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- "Ebola plush toys have been selling so fast in response to this year's outbreak that a Connecticut manufacturer, Giantmicrobes Inc., can't keep them in stock.
The company, which was founded a decade ago, makes stuffed toys based on the appearance of microbes like Ebola, Chicken pox, bed bugs, and even non-harmful microscopic organisms things like brain and red blood cells.
The items are meant to be educational tools for young children, Laura Sullivan, vice president of operations, told CBS News.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/10/22/Ebola-plush-toys-are-big-sellers/4801414019249/#ixzz3GzVr5AIv
Sounds yucky at first blush... but i guess its a good thang.!!!
RE: Ebola plush toys are big sellers - Yazata - Oct 26, 2014
Toy microbes? That's kind of cool, I'd like to have a few of those. You could put toy germs all over, on top of bookcases, toss a few on the couch, be sure to put some in the bathroom and in the fridge.
When I read the words 'Ebola toys', I wasn't really thinking of toy germs. I was thinking of little Ebola-victim dolls that ooze fake blood and fluid. That made me think 'eewww'. I'll pass on that.