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SNIP:If Americans are hurting from $3 gasoline, wait till they feel the pain of $4, or even $5, diesel fuel.
We'd better get ready, because it's probably on the way. On Monday, the price of diesel reached an all-time high of $3.21 per gallon, and that may be just the beginning of a long-term rise. Over the next 18 months or so, parts of the country could be seeing shortages of certain diesel blends, and the resultant price spikes.
Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/14/content_3615480.htm
Urine may be one way to spread mad cow disease
www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-14 09:57:40
WASHINGTON, Oct.13 (Xinhuanet) --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The researchers concluded that prion transmission through urineis theoretically possible.
And this might explain how scrapie is spread among sheep, and why chronic wasting diseases are detected in wild deer and elk in western states of the United States and elsewhere.
Food and feed that contain infected body parts of animals have been believed to be the only way to transmit the brain-wasting diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which are fatal and incurable.
Its version in human is known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. People eating beef infected with mad cow disease could develop a version of CJD. And 151 people have so died around the world.
The Swiss researchers suggest that urine might be added to the list of animal remains to be watched for as a possible source of transmission."
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