A shocking percentage of Lou Dobbs viewers agreed with... woops!

Do you believe the Food and Drug Administration will ever find the source of the salmonella outbreak?
Yes 11% 595
No 89% 4692
Total Votes: 5287
Poll results not scientific (but idiotic)

News item: Call it the smoking jalapeno. After nearly two months of mystery, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified a jalepeno pepper that is contaminated with the same strain of Salmonella saintpaul that has sickened more than 1,237 people in 43 states.

It's the first time during this outbreak that a test has found the salmonella strain in a piece of produce.

The discovery, which will be announced shortly by FDA, was made at a packing plant in McAllen, Texas, according to a source familiar with the issue. The pepper was grown in Mexico, the source said, but was sent to the U.S. for sale. Authorities are not sure where it was contaminated with salmonella.

more good news for people who like bad news (you know who you are)

Biodiversity loss will lead to sick world: experts

The world risks wiping out a new generation of antibiotics and cures for diseases if it fails to reverse the extinction of thousands of plant and animal species, experts warned Wednesday.

Biodiversity loss has reached alarming levels, and disappearing with it are the secrets to finding treatments for pain, infections and a wide array of ailments such as cancer, they said, citing the findings of a coming book.

Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said more than 16,000 known species are threatened with extinction, but the number could be more.

the Saucer People will appreciate this after we're gone

UN lauds ‘innovative’ Norwegian arctic vault safeguarding world’s crop seeds

Morgellons? Sounds like a Horror middle reliever

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research launched a study to learn about an unexplained skin condition known as Morgellons. Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of symptoms including non-healing skin lesions associated with the emergence of fibers or solid material from the skin, abnormal skin sensations (such as stinging and biting or pins and needles) and non-cutaneous symptoms such as difficulty concentrating and short-term memory loss. Researchers hope to learn more about who might be affected, what symptoms they experience, and factors that may contribute to their illness...Interested persons are encouraged to visit the CDC’s Unexplained Dermopathy/Morgellons web site."

k-mad clambering back on the Obama bandwagon

Nuttin' against da Elf exactly... just worried about the bacterium.

holiday spirit: a ragin' contagion'

Boys, 8 and 9, charged with rape
Holiday travel off to a rough start
FBI details US hate crimes rise
Father of burned boys called person of interest
Cubs president quits, joins Blackhawks
100,000 kids to be tracked
Chicago worst again in mail service
Mr. Whipple dies
Dog back home after adventure, neutering
48°F Mist * Traffic ~ Weather: UGLY

global idiocy contagion spreading

77-Year-Old Gets Carded in Beer Purchase

McBuggin'

dangerous germ... more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought... killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus... invulnerable to first-line antibiotics... 94,000 serious infections... 19,000 deaths each year... insidious pathogen... "We should be very worried... It's really just the tip of the iceberg..." few remaining effective drugs... painful, disfiguring "necrotizing" abscesses that eat away tissue... unusually serious pneumonia... 31 out of every 100,000 Americans... superbug...