Right on. This guy identified something he wasn’t happy with and that was likely to kill him and he got off his ass and DID SOMETHING. I’m sure there are a lot of overweight people, or people with other issues, that think he is great, but say, “I can’t leave my [job, family, life, etc.]…
Category: Outbreaks
How a Pandemic Takes Wing
There is a lot of talk about Bird Flu lately. I thought the story below had some good information. Also, NPR has a great link here Maybe an epidemiologist or other expert can clarify if there are any flaws in this. cd How a Pandemic Takes Wing Springtime usually brings joy to Alaska after a…
Happiness is a Great John Toilet
(Thanks, Terry!) The Great John is a toilet for “big” people. The website painstakingly avoids any words that might suggest this is a problem or that they are TOO big. Regular toilet seats are described as “terribly small.” And, the site notes that the Great John can also be used by “a small person or…
Fat Virus, Ad-36 Blamed For Obesity Epidemic In Australians
As a side note to this story, other scientists were not surprised to find out that in addition to having the fat virus, fat people also had the ‘eat too much’ virus and the ‘not be very active’ virus. This news was shocking as no one really believed there could be a connection between obesity…
Update: Dambulla monkeys die from a viral infection?
Here is a quick update on the Dambulla Monkey deaths in Sri Lanka… cd Colombo: The cause behind the deaths of monkeys that live around the Dambulla ancient rock temple, 125 km north of Colombo is believed to be a viral infection, the veterinary officer of the area Dr. J. M. Senevirathna Banda said to…
How can a space satellite track Ebola?
By doing what satellites do well – tracking the changes in landscape such as rainfall, vegetation cover, water, height, dust and temperature – to identify the climatic conditions that help epidemic hosts such as Ebola haemorrhagic fever and meningitis to spread. The Epidemio project, funded by the European Space Agency and started in January 2004,…
The New National Pasttime- Killing the Homeless
Here is another fine example of something terrible going on in America… cd BOSTON – A homeless man sleeping in a park was attacked early Sunday by two men who kicked him in the stomach and then set him on fire, police said. No arrests were made and police gave no indication of what might…
Pet's Are Fat Too!
Seeing fat pets doesn’t annoy me nearly as much as seeing fat kids, but the result is the same…people are killing their pets by overfeeding them…isn’t it cute that Rover eats 86 pounds of food a day???? cd MuscatineJournal.com MUSCATINE, Iowa – Muscatine veterinarians and pet supply salesmen agree with a report that says obesity…
Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Fatties!
I’ve been wanting to say this for a long time…STOP LETTING YOUR KIDS GET SO FUCKING FAT!! There is not much that pisses me off more than seeing a severely obese kid eating an ice cream cone while their parents watch on affectionately. Not only are those parents condemning their child to an early death,…
Never mind Bird Flu…here is Chikungunya!
Sure, it may eventually pass…but this sounds like total hell…. cd TODAYonline The toll in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion from a mosquito-borne virus that causes crippling pain in the joints is likely to reach 100,000 by week’s end, the minister for France’s overseas territories, Francois Baroin, said. . “We will probably reach the…