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POPS1998: Syphilis Genome Sequenced; 2008: Syphilis on the Rise Incidence is up among women, African-Americans and, most prominently, gay men, who account for 64 percent of the more than 12,000 people diagnosed last year with either primary or secondary syphilis infections. Primary infections appear as ulcers or shankers on the genitals, anus or mouth; secondary infections result in rashes on the foot's sole or the palm of the hand as well as hair loss and lesions on or around the genitalia.
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POPSTwo tough Questions Click on Source for all full questions and answers, you may be surprised! The last question not able to clip is the best in my humble opinion.
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POPSS&L Scandal Tidbits * The rip-off began in 1980 when the government raised the federal insurance on S&L's from $40,000 to $100,000 even though the typical savings account was only around $6000. * Some of the seized assets were a buffalo sperm bank, a racehorse with syphilis, and a kitty litter mine. * James Fail invested $1000 of his own money to purchase 15 failing S&L's. The government reimbursed him $1.85 billion in federal subsidies. * It sometimes took over 7 years to close failing S&L's by the government. * When S&L owners who stole millions went to jail, their sentances were typically one-fifth that of the average bank robber. * The goverment bail out will cost the taxpayers around $1.4 trillion dollars when it is over. * If the White House had stepped in and bailed out the S&L's in 1986 instead of delaying until after the 1988 elections, the cost might have been only $20 billion. * With the money lost from the S&L scandals, the government could have provided
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POPSThe Nun With a Switchblade
"On January 18 of that year, prior to their appearance on stage at President Lyndon B. Johnson's Inaugural Gala, Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett were observed kissing passionately in public in a Washington hotel. The clinch, which both women later claimed was a stunt staged to amuse their friend, actor and movie director Mike Nichols, was witnessed by the President's wife, Lady Bird Johnson, who unexpectedly stepped out of the hotel elevator at that moment. This incident, sadly, is missing from Dame Julie's new book, in which she says of her chum Carol, "'I loved all that she was, all that she exuded - we bonded instantly," adding: "I lost my own inhibitions and felt free beside her." OMG!! Doesn't sound like a "stage stunt" to me. And I'll tell you what. My gaydar is pretty darn good and something about Ms. Burnette screams out BISEXUAL to me. But what a life Ms. Andrews has had eh? So different from her carefully planned public persona. No one can know our struggles.
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POPSA Medical Controversy "National gay rights groups were quick to label such talk as “hysteria,” even as researchers as the university scrambled to clarify their findings. On Friday, it issued an apology, saying their release had “contained some information that could be interpreted as misleading. ndeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which helped finance the study, affirmed on Wednesday that the disease was not sexually transmitted or limited to a certain type of person. It is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, the agency said in a statement, and is widespread in hospitals and among hospital workers."
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POPSMRSA USA300 hits whom it wants. “It’s really meant to be used to mean all inclusive, including the men-who-have-sex-with-men population,” he said. “It’s not just gay people that get it,” he said. “You can get it anywhere.” Indeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which helped finance the study, affirmed on Wednesday that the disease was not sexually transmitted or limited to a certain type of person. It is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, the agency said in a statement, and is widespread in hospitals and among hospital workers. “These infections occur in men, women, adults, children and persons of all races and sexual orientations,” the statement read, adding that while the particular strain identified in the report had been found in gay men, it had also been found in people who were not gay. (NYT)
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POPSIndigenous SEX Wipeout Deliberate? Survival International Survival's director Stephen Corry stated, "Tribal people die because their land is invaded and taken and because they succumb to outside diseases they never knew before. Increasingly now we can add HIV/AIDS to the list of killers. "It is striking the most vulnerable peoples of all: those who have no grasp of the risks of unprotected sex; no access to condoms; no appropriate treatment; and whose numbers are already small. The first solution is the simplest - governments must ensure tribal lands are properly protected."
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POPSRecalls for Bad Blood Not Uncommon After all the problems with HIV tainted blood in the 1980's and 1990's, you'd think everyone would have blood security down pat. If it was a problem once, in a society driven by profit and time, it will be a problem again!
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POPSChamber of Commerce Begs for Help While not a humorous topic I couldn't help flashing on the furrowed brows within the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce as they wrestle how to work this into their next tourist promotion.
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POPSU.S. sets record in sexual disease cases The increase is relative to U.S. figures There are likely to be higher rates elsewhere, but the trend, is an indication of the ability of bacteria to develop immunity to antibiotics.Apart from the unsafe sex practices. It seems to be becoming more of a threat because people have not yet listened to alerts to the continued adaptation of bacteria to overcome the barriers that we put up against them. For the sake of sex, we can choose not to remember the risks. If someone already has a virus, they aren't afraid of catching it
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POPSRare potoroo cursed by bacteria Australia's rarest marsupial, 80% of the wild population which is fewer than forty. are infected with a form of syphilis similar to the one found in rabbits. Antibiotics are being trialled on it's nearest relative.
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POPSAbortion vs Beethoven? I am a strong supporter of abortion rights and while this fact does not change my core belief it does make me stop and think more than any anti-abortion argument ever has.
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POPSStorm Worm Getting Really Really Scary When security mega-guru Bruce Schneier says it's time to get scared about something, I get scared. Here he enumerates why the Storm worm, (probably the largest bot net of all time--the Washington Post's Brian Krebs calculated that it was bigger than the world's biggest supercomputer) is unlike anything that's threatened the Internet in the past, and speculates on what it could be intended for.
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