What do these two misfortunes have to do with each other, besides being unusual ways to get hurt? They’re among the latest additions to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision. In other words, they’re the descriptions of new diagnostic codes for physicians. Since, I guess, they’d be hard to fit into the old codes.
According to Science News, here are some of the odder new codes:
- V91.35: Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to canoe or kayak
- V95.40: Unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occupant
- V97.33: Sucked into jet engine
- W55.21: Bitten by a cow
- V91.07: Burn due to water skis on fire
Possibly Science News is making these up—and there are more—but I am not. Where is Dave Barry when you need him?
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