It’s no wonder people are just heading down dirt roads and dumping all their trash.<<<
Here they will arrest you for dumping trash.
I kinda laugh, for a few years ago, I took an archeological class at the college and at last there was a field trip.
LOL, we went out, the entire class and viewed trash that had been dumped alongside the roadway, not that old, 1940’s and 50’s from the looks of it.
LOL, I had seen much finer “finds” all over the west, but then what do you expect, when the teacher is also a BLM employee.
[BLM =Bureau of Land Management in the west, or aka Gov. Employee.]
Oh, believe me, it’s illegal here to dump trash, but with miles and miles of woods roads, it is a law impossible to enforce. Drive a mile or two down any dirt road and I guarantee that you will see TVs, refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, mattresses and all manner of trash. Now, you pay for everything you take to the dump, get treated very rudely and some items they won’t take for any price, so what do the people do with it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251401/posts
Scorpion venom neutralized - A drug used in Mexico proves effective in Arizona test
Science News ^ | May 13th, 2009 | Nathan Seppa
Posted on Fri May 15 2009 01:26:12 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by neverdem
The Arizona bark scorpion may be small, but its sting delivers a neurotoxin that can kill or render critically ill a young child. A study in the May 14 New England Journal of Medicine finds that an antivenom drug commonly used in Mexico for such stings neutralizes the toxin, eliminates symptoms and reduces the need for sedation in children who have been stung.
More than 200 children in Arizona and a handful in New Mexico become critically ill from Arizona bark scorpion stings each year, but there is no U.S.–approved remedy for the stings. Children are rushed to intensive care units and sedated to prevent wild thrashing and choking, says pediatrician Leslie Boyer of the University of Arizona in Tucson. The victims are closely monitored until the neurotoxin’s effects fade, which takes 16 hours on average but can take several days. Some children require a mechanical ventilator to breathe.
Adults typically face painful but much milder symptoms from the sting of this scorpion, Centruroides sculpturatus.
During 2004 and 2005, Boyer and her colleagues randomly assigned 15 children showing up at Tucson hospitals with scorpion poisoning to receive either the Mexican antivenom and sedation as needed or a placebo infusion along with sedation. Both groups also received other care, such as breathing assistance if necessary. Doctors treating the patients didn’t know who was given antivenom and who wasn’t.
Eight of eight children receiving the antivenom showed no signs of scorpion venom in their blood after only one hour and recovered within four hours. Only one in seven children who received the placebo recovered in four hours, and that child was the oldest and heaviest of the group at 42 kilograms. The children not getting the antivenom also needed 65 times as much sedative drug as the others on average, Boyer says..