Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. May 2 is International Scurvy Awareness Day, and it takes the (fruit)cake for the most fun fest dedicated to an all-but-defunct disease. The satire-happy (but scurvy-free) folks at limestrong.com — who founded the event last year — say that "we probably have a better shot at making out with Jessica Alba than actually bringing a global end to scurvy, a disease that might just be the stupidest and most easily cured disease in human history, but that doesn't mean we're not going to give it a shot."
This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2010.
