- Human body parts used for transplants are being recalled after the FDA shut down a "body harvester" who couldn't be bothered to work in a sterile environment while carving up corpses. Body parts from people who died of cancer are showing up as transplant organs, too.
- Recently withdrawn from the worldwide market, Bausch & Lomb's contact lens solution increased the risk 20-fold of developing the Fusarium keratitis, a serious bacterial infection that can in certain cases lead to permanent vision loss.
- Nearly a quarter of all American women have genital herpes, as do 11 percent of American men
- West Nile virus is back with a vengeance this year, especially in Texas, where the cure — massive spraying of toxic chemicals — may be worse than the disease.
- Canada today confirmed its fifth case of Mad Cow Disease this year. Of course, the cow's carcass didn't make it into the food chain. Of course not.
- One and a half million people in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have the parasite-caused disease clonorchiasis. Also, last week, 70 people in Beijing became sick after eating contaminated snails.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
One day's headlines tell us how toxic, dangerous, and deadly our world is
A quick look at today's headlines reminds us how toxic and deadly our world really is:
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