Glad it was quiet for you. Honestly, I’m not surprised that people are getting through on the wrong flights.
Sorry to do this to you - BUT - planes are icky:
UAL 747 Searched In China After Mice Discovered Onboard
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=e682c8ae-7438-48bd-96b3-f682dab0b549
Eight Rodents Found... Some In Pillows...
Perhaps this will slow down the jokes about contaminated Chinese products coming to the US. Reuters reports a Chinese government emergency team rushed onto a United Airlines jet in Beijing, after the crew notified air traffic control Sunday they found evidence of mice onboard the plane.
Over the course of two days, inspectors set traps, and say they eventually found eight mice, some dead. The live ones were sent out for lab analysis.
The good news: None of the mice tested positive for bubonic plague antigens or parasites, and airline officials say there was no damage to the plane’s wiring done by the enterprising rodents.
“Our customers on this flight were always safe and unaware of the situation,” United spokesperson Robin Urbanski said. The Boeing 747 had flown to Beijing from Washington, DC.
The bad news: The inspectors said they found the mice hiding in pillows... so, flier beware.
(eeeeeeeekk!!!)
Yehchttttt - ditto using the blankets (most likely never washed).
El Pasoans could wait weeks for medicine in bioterrism attack
If something like an anthrax attack or the Pandemic flu hits El Paso, El Paso’s Bioterrorism Pan Demic Flu Preparedness Program said it will be mass chaos. The city's department of health will have enough medicine to treat people, but the department said it needs more than 2,000 extra volunteers to give out medicine. As of now the department has about 450 volunteers. At that rate people will be waiting for a long time to get medicine they need.
“It would take about three weeks to mass medicate all of El Paso if something were to happen tomorrow or today,” said Strategic National Stockpile planner Rosalinda Hortsman.
New York City battles feds for bio-terror sensors
A new generation of early warning sensors for biological terrorism is proving to be controversial in New York City, as city officials battle with the federal government over the number of sensors.
City officials want more of the units, which cost $100,000 each. But officials with the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., which funds 90 percent of the units' cost, say they prefer to wait for even newer technology, saying the government wants "accurate and affordable" bioterrorism protection for all cities.
Medical alert response by agencies dangerously slow
How fast do public health departments nationwide respond to medical practitioners' alerts that a patient has a serious infectious disease such as smallpox or meningitis? Or to a doctor who thinks he's seeing the first symptoms of anthrax from bioterrorism?
Not very. In fact, the average response time could be dangerously slow, according to a new study from the Rand Corp.
Researchers found that only one-third of the 74 participating agencies consistently connected the reporting doctors or nurses with a qualified “action officer,” such as a public health nurse or epidemiologist, within 30 minutes.