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POPSTrain quarantined in Ontario I feel badly for the healthy people quarantined. Imagine what it must be like to be stuck on a stationery train. Hopefully it will all turn out to be OK
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POPSDon't Say "It Couldn't Happen Here". At least one presidential candidate has publicly advocated policies which parallel this situation. Reading things like this reminds me of the famous "First they came..." statement attributed to Martin Niemöller. It's also a good time to keep in mind that the rights of the least among us, the rights of people we disagree with or even hate, are our rights too, and that when someone on the fringe loses out so do we all.
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POPSHuckabee AIDS comment alarms victim's mom Huckabee outlined his views in 1992 for the AP more than a year after President George H.W. Bush, a fellow Republican, urged an audience of business executives not to fire or otherwise discriminate against employees infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. I would love to see him try and explain himself to this woman.
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POPSPesticides to Rain Down Over Santa Cruz County Although I do not fear this chemical, I do believe we are bing tested. If they can get away with aerial spraying in the most liberal town in the US, they can do it anywhere. I do not want politicians and corporations making the decision of what can and cannot spray on me and my family.
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POPSHow to delete IEDefender To avoid future harm to your computer, IEDefender should be removed as soon as it has been detected on your system.
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POPS China Arrests 774 in Product Crackdown Nearly 200 illegal food companies have been shut amid more than 10,000 cases of violations of the law. "We will ensure the results will be longer lasting," Gao told reporters. The official Xinhua News Agency also reported Monday that China would raise quality standards for pharmaceutical licensing following a string of deaths and injuries from faulty drugs. The new standard, which takes effect Jan. 1, will allow no "severe defects" in the drug manufacturing process, while current rules let a producer obtain a license if three such defects are found but corrected, the Xinhua News Agency said. The report said submission of false information by pharmaceutical companies was considered a "severe defect" but gave no other examples.
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POPSU.S. labs mishandling deadly germs....science fiction come to life
Among the previously undisclosed accidents: * In Rockville, Md., ferret No. 992, inoculated with bird flu virus, bit a technician at Bioqual Inc. on the right thumb in July. The worker was placed on home quarantine for five days and directed to wear a mask to protect others. * An Oklahoma State University lab in Stillwater in December could not account for a dead mouse inoculated with bacteria that causes joint pain, weakness, lymph node swelling and pneumonia. The rodent -- one of 30 to be incinerated -- was never found, but the lab said an employee "must have forgotten to remove the dead mouse from the cage" before the cage was sterilized. * In Albuquerque, N.M., an employee at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute was bitten on the left hand by an infected monkey in September 2006. The animal was ill from an infection of bacteria that causes plague. "When the gloves were removed, the skin appeared to be broken in 2 or 3 places," the report said. The worker was r
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POPSTasmanian Tiger skull shows how the dingo did it When the west arrived in Australia, there were two known carnivorous predators, The Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine,) and The Tasmanian Devil. The Tasmanian Tiger was eliminated through trophy hunting, and farmers trying to protect livestock. The Tasmanian Devil Still has a relatively large population, but is being decimated, by something that can only be described as a plague, which, may be viral, bacterial, genetic, or a combination, and leaves the animals ulcerated and with a low survival chance. There are attempts to understand this disease, and it's means of transmission, but there is fear that the answers will be found when it is too late. There are attempt to isolate some animals free of the disease, quarantine them, in an effort to repopulate if the disease continues unchecked, but until more is known, the chances of repopulating a natural habitat seem remote.
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POPSItalian Plague Graves When plague struck Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries, everybody sick or showing any suspect symptoms were restricted on the island until they recovered or died. "Nobles or lower class didn't make any difference," said Luisa Gambaro, an anthropologist of the University of Padua. "All the sick were forced to stay on Lazzaretto Vecchio, and if they died, they were buried together."
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POPSBeijing Suspends U.S. Meat Imports This smacks of tit-for-tat retaliation after months of international calls for China to improve the safety of its own food and drug exports. Earlier this year, some pets in the U.S. died from food that contained Chinese gluten suspected of being tainted. Concern has also been raised about the safety of Chinese toothpaste and seafood exports.
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