Worse Than SARS?

I believe what killed bee population has mutated.let me explain.genetically modified corn can not be regrown,for a second year crop.also,when this wheat decays it turns into a white spore,that in the past longed in lungs of bees,as green algae.made up of starch,that could not be broken down ,by the bees.the white bacteria,had not corn sugar,.but a tree starch,with green algae,that would grow inside bees killing them

This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.


Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

Worse than SARS? Not even close. SARS is a highly contagious respiratory virus; TB is a slow-growing bacteria that a healthy body often marshalls an effective defense against. It takes only days to contract and die of SARS - it takes years to contract and die of TB, years when therapies can be very effectively mounted against TB.

TB becomes an issue for people with poor health, poor ventilation, poor nutrition, and compromised immune systems, which is why it is such a problem in third-world countries, but rare in industrialized countries.

Any time a germ develops resistance it is cause for concern, but XDR-TB is rare, and will remain so. Yes, we need to be vigilant, but media hype is completely uncalled for.

Nice article, but please check your facts - 'virulence' refers to the capacity of the bacillu sot transmit and cause active disease. In fact, XDr strains are less virulent than non-drug resistant TB, as the 'cost' of the drug resistance mechanisms reduce the bacilli's fitness to survive in an otherwise healthy individual. The real danger of XDR-TB is its imapct on HIV-positive people - in the KwaZulu Natal case mentioned above, all of the deaths were in people infected with HIV. THere are singly drug-resistant strains of comaparable virulence to 'original' TB, and it is surely only a matter of time before XDR-TB strains compensate for their weaknesses and become more virulent, but at this point it is misleading and unduly hysterical to talk of 90% mortality rates and increased 'virulence' as if this applied to the general population. Finally, Peru recently successfully cured cases of XDR-TB. We need to act swiftly but without panicking.