A friend and witness to the inside of the home is quoted:
"It looked like a chainsaw massacre had happened in that trailer, the blood was thick everywhere." CBC News A dog attack in the Metro Vancouver area has left a young woman in critical condition. In this attack by a single dog, four people were injured. An older man vaulted a two metre fence to aid two women and a three year old that were being attacked by a Rottweiler cross. He suffered bites and needed seven stitches to close the wound. The young women were not so fortunate. Police were on the scene quickly but one woman was hospitalized with numerous lacerations. Her twin sister is in critical condition with over 100 bites a fractured arm and a detached bicep. That dog is reported to belong to one of the women’s boyfriend. Earlier in the week another dog mauling occurred in another Metro Vancouver municipality. New Westminster residents phoned police to report screaming and a dog barking. Upon investigation, police found two adults being attacked in their home. They suffered head and facial injuries. The dog was inside the home and known to them. Any dog can turn rogue. Poor training of the owners and lack of followup training of the dog will often result in an unruly animal. Sometimes people will acquire a dog to bolster their ego and not think about the consequences of their choices. Every dog needs a pack leader to respect or they will attempt to fill that spot, usually by intimidation and biting. Sources: CBC News Vancouver Sun
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Heptachlor is one of many pesticides known by the acronym POPs.
That makes them sound almost benign. Their actual name is Persistent Organic Pollutants. Many of these effective pesticides will persist in soil, plants and animals for many years. They also have the ability to bio-accumulate. They can remain in a body over many years and each additional exposure adds to the poison load. Recent investigations have shown that humans do not have to handle or apply theses POPs to accumulate a load of poison. Studies conducted in California’s Central Valley where agriculture is a major industry have shown that one only needs to be in the area where the pesticide is used to have it show up in the blood. Tests done on inside workers – teachers, clerks and the like – showed significant levels of contamination. Agricultural workers were not part of the investigation. People far from the contaminated agricultural sites can also acquire POPs. Eating crops grown in contaminated soil, eating fish, dairy, fatty meats from animals exposed will also pass along the poisons. It is becoming increasingly important for consumers to make judgements and choices about where their food is sourced. It is also important for those who look for the “organic” label on their foods to consider whether the country of origin has high levels of pollution and whether the organic designation is made by a reputable organization. Sources: Science Daily US National Library of Medicine Natural Resources Defense Council Journal of Chilean Chemical Society The emergence of MCR-1 heralds the breach of the last group of antibiotics, polymyxins, by plasmid-mediated resistance. Although currently confined to China, MCR-1 is likely to emulate other global resistance mechanisms such as NDM-1. The Lancet
TV news regularly trots out a health care provider to lecture us on the overuse of antibiotics. Antibiotics have widespread effects and should only be used after careful thought, but many countries do not respect that admonition and if you have the money you can acquire the drugs. The agricultural use of antibiotics to encourage rapid growth is rarely mentioned. It may be that some of the research being done on bacterial phages – viruses that attack bacteria – will fill in the weak spots. That research was pioneered by the Soviets, and phage therapy is used in Georgia, Russia and parts of Poland currently. Sources: Discovery News Scientific American The Lancet The team of Carlos Bernal and Nancy Guerra have founded a company with their patented device.
The future looks bright for the eventual widespread marketing of the new testing device. Currently there are approximately 400 million people world wide who have diabetes and that number is increasing every year. The University of Alberta ended a years long project to analyze the composition of urine. They concluded that there are at least 3000 metabolic compounds in our waste fluid. In the near future the taking of blood samples may be a thing of the past as new urine based tests are being developed. Lead scientist, David Wishart, in the Alberta investigation is quoted below: In particular, he notes that new urine-based diagnostic tests for colon cancer, prostate cancer, celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, pneumonia and organ transplant rejection are already being developed or are about to enter the marketplace, thanks in part to this work. Sources: Diabetes.co.uk GlucosAlarm Medical News |
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