Also, questioning Tucson?? Border area, illegals? 500 seems like a lot for one year. .
I wonder if my Purell will work? Considering how cold it has been here I can wear my mittens when I go to the store. I don't know, it's all kind of depressing, I'm going to take my Amazing Grace bubble bath and snuggle in bed and not worry.
I bought a keychain hand sanitizer (actually fits on keychain and is refillable). Gloves or mittens are great for touching shopping carts - I always wash them in hot water when we return home. Don't know if that helps, but it makes me feel like it does.
SNIP: Ray and coworkers[23] reported a population-based surveillance for invasive MRSA based on positive cultures from normally sterile sites as a component of CDC surveillance in 9 different geographic locations. There were 8353 cases, primarily with positive blood cultures (87%). Of these, 13% were community-acquired. The community-acquired cases were characterized by more cellulitis, deep abscesses, septic arthritis, and endocarditis. There were substantial geographic differences -- USA300 accounted for 24% of MRSA in California, but only 3% in New York State.
Personal note: Does illegal population in California have a bearing on the raised percentile in that state?
Snip: MOSCOW,- Documents describing technologies of 'dirty' radioactive, chemical and biological weapons have been found in Chechnya, Chief of the Russian General Staff Yury Baluyevsky said Thursday. He said Russia should upgrade its system of protection against such weapons.
Russia has technology to outsmart anti-missile technology
Snip: Russia has the technology for a strategic missile that could get around any existing or future anti-ballistic missile defense systems, the chief of the Russian General Staff said Thursday. "This is a very expensive technology and its [industrial] production depends on the situation," Yury Baluyevsky said. He said anti-ballistic missile defense systems were not efficient in their defense against existing types of weapons.
Regarding new dangers in Africa
Snip: The Polisario Front, the last remaining liberation movement fighting for independence in Africa, contested an earlier UPI report that it could be turning to Islamist organizations and organized crime.
In an article titled "New danger in Africa" published earlier this week United Press International cited a European intelligence think tank stating that the Polisario could be turning to radical Islam.
Snip: DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 4 - The Syrian police clashed with suspected Islamic terrorists in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, foiling their plans to bomb sites in the city, Syria's state-run news agency, SANA, reported.
The brief official statement said five people were wounded in the clashes, including two of the suspected militants. The clashes took place near the Aleppo Department of Transportation.
Bin Laden of South Africa's reign of terror
Snip: A Midlands businessman, who described himself as the Bin Laden of South Africa and as a Muslim terrorist who was not afraid to die, has been temporarily interdicted from harassing a Pietermaritzburg attorney and two Estcourt families.
Bin Laden may have traveled to the US as a young man
Snip: Monday Dec 5 13:26 Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden may have visited the United States as a young man, long before declaring jihad against America and its allies, the New Yorker magazine has reported. The weekly, in its December 13 edition set to hit US newsstands today, reported that according a longtime acquaintance from his native Saudi Arabia, bin Laden made at least one trip to the United States, in about 1978, with his wife and oldest son, who needed medical treatment.