Still not getting it

When I posted a negative review of a toy HIV virus last year, my fellow Amazonians accused me of lacking a sense of humour, not understanding the educational value (!) of the product, etc.

I admit that I still don't get it. What so fun about Mad Cow disease? It can be transmitted to humans, and is fatal. Other "educational toys" in this product line include "Flesh Eating Streptococcus", "Multiple-Resistant Staphylococcus", Lyme Disease, Swine Flu, Food Poisoning and - wait for it - Ebola.

This is supposed to be fun?

Call me old-fashioned, but I think giving the kids a toy symbolizing a deadly disease is...well, sick. Or at the very least, diseased.