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twistedchick has an incredibly interesting take on world events for the past couple of months. It's an analysis that could all too well be 100% true.

In other news, I've actually kind of found it difficult to the news blogging for the past week or so. Between all the shit hitting the fan with global warming and Bush/Putin trying to put us back into the days of the Cuban Missile crisis, it's a little too draining. I'm sure my outrage will lead me to continue it, but for the moment, I may be backing off a bit.

I do have to throw these out there though - It's not just honey bees that are dying. Bumble bees are dying too.

And as if you didn't have enough to worry about with MRSA and the emergence of deadly bacteria that cause ear infections, Six American Military hospitals have been affected by outbreaks of deadly bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii isn't new, but in the past, it was pretty much considered an oportunistic infection. Now though, drug resistant forms of it have developed.

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I've been wondering about these MRSA infections. I have to believe these super bugs evolved, in part, because of the US hysteria about germs. People want anti-biotics for every ailment. Everything is anti-bacterial. The grocery stores even have anti-bacterial wipes for shopping cart handles now. People just don't get that this is causing germs and viruses to become more resistent to the point where nothing we have will combat them. A certain amount of hygene is good, but as usual, we take a good thing and overdo it.

mmm MRSA. MRE, VRE, VRSA, and ESBL. I do not miss working with these infections in the rehab.

funny lil thing. Doc told me I probably have colonized MRSA because all the ear infections and strep infections I had as a kid. the advantage of this? I can always have a private room in the hospital if I tell someone. disadvantage is of course being treated like I have the plague.

Aaaargh! You scare me with your different layoutness everytime I do approach. Aaaargh!

Seriously, though, the bee thing is really getting frightening. So sad/scary that so many people don't even know how worried they should be about it.

Here where I live we're in the midst of a staph outbreak. Outside hospitals, like in schools, including university, where I happen to be. And including the super-staph that's drug resistant.

Oh, the joy of impending doom at our own hands...

Aaaargh, I say again! :(