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CDC: Lead poisoning in Iran from lead added to opium.
why add lead? Maybe because opium is sold by weight, and lead is heavy so it means a higher profit.
Backstory: Much of the world's opium is smuggled out of Afghanistan via Iran, and Iran has a major drug addiction problem... but opium is also used in medicines prescribed by herbal traditional medicine practitioners.
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flu season is here. Nursing homes should require all patients and staff to get flu shots.
Older people, and those with chronic health conditions of any age, are especially vulnerable to the influenza virus, and at an increased risk of developing flu-related complications such as pneumonia.
Widespread vaccination helps create "herd immunity" that makes it harder for the virus to spread between people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone over the age of six months should be vaccinated against the flu every year, with few exceptions.
But the CDC has reported that only 68 percent of workers in long-term care settings such as nursing homes get vaccinated against the flu, compared with more than 92 percent of hospital workers.well, duh. Of course staff need the shot.
But the dirty little secret is that some elderly have sluggish immune systems so the shots don't work for them. That is why they are pushing for kids to get the shots: So they don't spread it.
But stopping visitors works too.
We once had an Influenza epidemic in our nursing home, because there were two strains going around, and the shot didn't work for both. After almost losing two patients, I put everyone on an anti viral prophylaxis, which made our pharmacy mad (the gov't hospital had a strict budget that I was emptying). However, it did stop the epidemic and we lost no more patients.
Alas, taking anti virals when you get sick might not work: Because you have to give them right away, and our patients often came in a few days later. But that year, we almost lost two kids from secondary bacterial Staph pneumonia that developed on day five.
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good news: Migraine surgery works. At least for some patients.
Surgery has become recognized as an effective treatment option for selected patients with chronic, severe migraine headaches who do not respond to standard treatments.
Developed by plastic surgeons who noticed that some migraine patients had fewer headaches after cosmetic forehead-lift, migraine surgery procedures address trigger sites linked to certain headache patterns.the surgery is described HERE.
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StrategyPage on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingye, which not only results in a lot of people suffering, but is seen as an opportunity for the ISIS/Alqaeda types to start a new war.
and there is a China connection:
And then there is China, which stands to gain influence in Burma if the Rohingya crises continues. Despite blocking UN resolution against Burma China is trying to make the best of a bad situation. This is about economics and politics. Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who won international praise for her decades of efforts to get Burmese democracy restored in 2011, now agrees with the Chinese pragmatism. She also believes China is the best alternative (for investment and essential imports) if international economic sanctions are again imposed on Burma...
yup. We are reading and hearing about Trumpie boy opposing the NWO's plans for peace by telling off the corrupt terrorism supporters in the middle east, but the dirty little secret is that China is supporting the most rabid dictatorships all over the world, but rarely gets condemned in the MSM.
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the danger of lithium batteries:
it's not just the danger of your cellphone/tablet exploding: it is a danger when an electric car crashes, because a domino effect made one battery after another catch fire.
In one test, a battery fire reignited 22 hours after it was thought to be extinguished. “‘Everything looked normal,’” recalled Andrew Blum, a researcher at the firm Exponent, which conducted the tests. ‘When we looked at the battery through a thermal imager, everything was back to ambient temperatures; the fire was extinguished as we would define it. But there was something going on internally in the module, and we just couldn’t tell.’ In two of the tests, firefighters ran out of air and had to switch tanks because of the length of time it took to fully extinguish the battery, according to Blum.”
On The Grand Tour, not only did Richard Hammond's fiery car crash in an electric car make headlines, but on the show they mentioned this problem in trying to put out the fire in his car, which hasn't gotten a lot of publicity outside of the EMT/Firefighters sites.
although environmental sites worry about what happens after the lithium batteries are discarded, there hasn't been a lot of investigation on the environmental damage after a crash like this one.
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