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:
  • 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  • Recently withdrawn from the worldwide market, Bausch & Lomb's contact lens solution increased the risk 20-fold of developing the Fusarium keratitis, a serious bacterial infection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.
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