Posted on 04/14/2006 7:55:33 AM PDT by Borges
But that being said
A grieving family wants to know if their loved one's death could have been prevented.
She could have not broken the law in the first place....
Well, if she would have stayed in her home country, she wouldn't have been in jail and at the very least, couldn't have fallen out of that particular bed...
As far as actually preventing death, I'm sorry to say that none of us gets out of here alive
Feel sorry for the correction officers and taxpayers who will be paying off her family when a lawyer shows up to sue for wrongful death.
The source is the article? Near the middle.
What the heck is that all about?
This is a nice way of saying that she has been voting Democrat since she got here.
Latinos have the terible habit of allowing pigs to forage off garbage in the streets and dumps. Have seen it hundreds of times. Cause & effect?
Howard Dean was attacking her brain??
Just damn. If she had come legally, with a health check this may not have happened. Tragic, but nobody's fault but her own for not seeking medical care way before winding up in the tank.
It isn't how far you fall, it's how you hit when you land.
"Pigs normally serve as the intermediate host for the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, and humans are infected with the adult stage of the tapeworm when they ingest an immature tapeworm (a cysticercus) in raw or undercooked pork. However, if humans ingest eggs of T. solium, they can be infected with cysticerci, resulting in a condition known as cysticercosis. What might be the source of these eggs? Humans harbor the adult stage of this tapeworm, and it is the adult stage that produces eggs. Thus, many cases of cysticercosis probably result from a person ingesting eggs that are produced by a tapeworm living in his or her own intestinal tract. Poor personal hygiene is one obvious way in which this could occur. It is also possible for the proglottids of T. solium to migrate anteriorly from the small intestine into the stomach and then back into the small intestine. Should this occur the eggs in the proglottids would hatch resulting in the potential for a massive infection of cysticerci. People can also be infected via food contaminated with eggs, or via eggs present in a household or work environment. Since the tapeworm's proglottids can crawl out of the anus and contaminate clothing, furniture, etc., or drop to the ground, such contamination could occur in the absence of any visible source of "fecal" contamination."
"For example, a cysticercus in the eye might lead to blindness, a cysticercus in the spinal cord could lead to paralysis, or a cysticercus in the brain (neurocysticercosis) could lead to traumatic neurological damage. Thus, even though infections with adult T. solium are rarely a problem, treatment of such infections is absolutely essential."
http://ryoko.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/cysticercosis.html
They are called cells, and there are so many cells in a pod. A Pod is a section of the jail with cells in it.
Here is another article about the brain parasite.
An intestinal parasite that has long existed in areas of Mexico and nations to the south is now making its way across the border with more frequency.
http://www.uthscsa.edu/mission/fall99/brain.htm
/bad humor
Lawsuit???? You betcha.
Isn't that swell. Another disease we have to worry about. Thank you, Mexico.
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