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Scoperta casualmente da Dan Kaminsky, è una minaccia così grave da far muovere insieme tutti i big dell’informatica (da Cisco a Microsoft). Ne hanno già parlato Wall Street Journal, BBC e Repubblica.it Il pericolo è quello di vedere redirezionata la nostra navigazione su internet anche senza i consueti trucchi di phishing. In pratica potremmo non accorgerci [...]

Lindsay Lohan turned the big twenty-two yesterday. If you felt the Earth vibrate last night, it was probably the vibrational fallout from this party girl’s shindig. I was going to send her a present, but apparently they don’t let you send a cocaine and adderall in the mail.

Hallyuwood comedian and MC host Kim Gu-ra was said to have completed the filming of an SBS show TV Law Firm which was aired last June 30 despite being poisoned. To be exact, the entertainer developed a case of food poisoning when he ate a skate, which is considered a delicacy in Korea, from a [...]

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My homeboy, Dr. Mehmet Oz and his amazing eyebrows, were back on Oprah to teach us how to stop poisoning ourselves. The show started with two supa-unhealthy people. They followed Dr.Ozzie's instructions on how to stop killing themselves get healthy. Voila, now they are healthier and happier. ~Yawn~ It wasn't exactly titillating, hence the lack of photos for ya'. The good part was when he gave grea

Symptoms of Dog PoisoningBy Richard Cross Terris All dog owners have seen at one time or another their dog eat or drink something they would rather they hadn’t! Whether it be an unattended dinner or something in a field, it’s an unfortunate fact that dogs can eat things that are potentially poisonous. The most important thing [...]

My dog is a mama's boy, tried and true. He is also a glutton and will eat anything you put in front of him, anything in the garbage, and anything AJ throws to him. It's why our beautiful pure-bred English Labrador went from a svelte 80 pounds before AJ's arrival to his current hub-scout size of 100 pounds.Cole is still the most handsome and patient dog you will meet. He takes punches and ear pulls

Features of chronic lead poisoning AB2C2DE Anemia Basophilia, Blue line Colic, Constipation Drop – wrist Encephalopathy Please visit MnemonicsMD.blogspot.com for more mnemonics

ARP Poisoning is performed when you send a customized ARP Reply to different computers fools them into updating their ARP cache with your MAC Address. Therefore, each time computer A wants to send data to computer B it will retrieve the MAC address of computer B’s IP and sends the data to that MAC address. However, if you are poisoning that computer’s ARP Cache that MAC address will be yours n

E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survive the initial bout. High blood pressure, kidney damage, even full kidney failure can strike 10 to 20 years later in people who survived severe E. coli infection as children. They can also suffer arthritis after a bout of salmonella or shigella, and a mysterious paralysis that attacks people who had even mild symptoms of campylobacter. These late effects are believed to make up a very small fraction of the nation's 76 million annual food poisonings, but no one knows just how many people are at risk. A bigger question could be what other illnesses have yet to be scientifically linked to food poisoning.

Recent study of U.S. government provides the latest evidence of a systematic cover-up of the health toll from pollution after the 9/11 disaster, which doctors fear will cause more deaths than the attacks themselves. Belfast Telegraph says, The Bush administration suppressed evidence of increasing danger and officially announced that the air around the felled buildings was "safe to breathe". But results of the government study, conducted by a consortium of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University, New York University, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, show exposure-related increases in new-onset cough, wheeze, shortness of breath, and bronchial hyper reactivity

Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. There are three main kinds of botulism. Foodborne botulism is caused by eating foods that contain the botulism toxin. Wound botulism is caused by toxin produced from a wound infected with Clostridium botulinum. More: [...]

Many of the symptoms caused by allergies are also similar to food poisoning. This is especially true of stomach upset, diarrhea, and unpleasant side-effects along those lines (see gluten allergy symptoms for some specific examples). More: continued here

Carbon Monoxide cannot be smelt, seen or tasted. Many people do not understand the true danger of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning until it’s too late. Exposure to carbon monoxide can lead to death within 20 minutes. The effects of carbon monoxide in parts per million are listed below: 35 ppm (0.0035%) Headache and dizziness within six to eight [...]

Thousands of people are affected by radon poisoning every year, and almost half the lung cancer cases are triggered by exposure to this radioactive element. How can one get to suffer from radon poisoning? More: continued here addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geoff-lord.com%2Fhealth%2Fhow-can-one-get-to-suffer-from-radon-poisoning-posted-by-muna-wa-wanjiru'; addthis_title = 'How+Can+One+Get+To+Suffer+From+Radon+Poisoning%3F+Posted+By+%3A+Muna+wa+Wanjiru'; addthis_pub [...]

Started by crafty mom Hilary Seabolt in 2004 when her son asked what kind of food his new stuffed animals were supposed to eat, Lilly Bean Market creates what is by far the nicest and most solidly constructed felt play food I’ve seen to date. She works closely with a small group of [...]

It happens. For some reason, dogs and cats show up in emergency clinics from time to time with signs of marijuana toxicity. Sometimes pets are present when this drug is being smoked and become intoxicated and overdose that way. dogs have been known to eat pipe cleanings or joints, but usually they’ve eaten some hash cookies [...]

From MayoClinic.comSpecial to CNN.comDespite the occasional news report of an outbreak of food poisoning, food supplies in the United States are inspected and generally very safe. But it's impossible to keep the entire food supply completely free of potentially dangerous bacteria. For this reason, you need to take precautions at home to prevent food poisoning.Food poisoning, also referred to as food-borne illness, is a gastrointestinal disorder caused by eating contaminated food. Most often, food poisoning occurs because the food has been incorrectly handled, improperly cooked or inadequately stored. The following steps can help reduce your chances of getting food poisoning.1. Wash your hands, utensils and food surfaces oftenYou've heard it before, but keeping your hands, utensils and food

The usual cat poisoning symptoms are vomiting or diarrhea. Unfortunately, not all symptoms become immediately apparent. Often the affects of her consuming something poisonous are not revealed for several weeks. If you suspect cat poisoning, there are several situations when you should not induce vomiting. Sometimes a cat is poisoned [...]

Americans are being treated as human guinea pigs. They are being assaulted by dangerous combinations of pharmaceutical company drug residue that passes from human waste into our taps and bottled water. But why? In the short run, Big Pharma’s goal is to slowly sicken us for profit. They create dependency on their cures and vaccines [...]

SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- Authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an anti-rabies program that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the region's main city, officials said Thursday.Animal rights activists vowed to go to court in a bid to stop the slaughter planned by Srinagar city, saying it is an illegal, extreme and cruel solution to a problem that could be better addressed wit

Efforts by individuals, communities and government agencies around the world have reduced a number of poison related deaths. Families too have a role to play in further reducing poison related accidents. More: continued here

My Health - Food poisoning is a type of gastroenteritis caused by food which has been contaminated by poison, usually bacteria. Depending to the poison’s type, abdominal spasm, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea will happen within 3 to 24 hours. If food has been contaminated by bacteria, bacteria will produce a poison which is known as toxin. Toxin provides a direct impact to intestinal layer and causes inflammation. There are various types of bacteria causing food poisoning but the usual ones are salmonella, shigella, staphylococcus and E. coli are a major cause of food poisoning among babies, especially babies who bottle suckling.For food poisoning that been caused by non bacterial material, sign of diseases also emerged if child accidentally ate chemical, insecticide or several type of p

Not all search engine optimization is ethical and organic. Offers of getting a website designed, running and generating revenue within a couple of weeks abound on the Internet, some boasting of lofty claims like a $2000 worth ‘big’ SEO package with ‘guarantees’. While such packages might be a bargain for small businesses, they are best to be ignored by SBO’s and big organizations alike. The main reason for this advice is the techniques that these so-called SEO’s implement, most of which are decidedly black hat and criminal. A website will be banned sooner than the SEO contract is over, and it will take a long time to get back lost business credibility. Similar to Google bombing, Google poisoning is a black hat search engine optimization technique. It rides on the conce

I live in a house built in 1917. I don’t have any leaks, my water flow seems good, and I haven’t noticed any red or brown water. But: recently, I read an article in the New York Times saying I should not drink hot water from my tap because of the possibility of lead poisoning. [...]

On medical leave today.Had a bad case of food poisoning since yesterday. I've been going in and out of the loo! Yucks but not funny okay! Suspect it was the chicken & mushroom pie that i had for lunch. By the time work finished I was seriously feeling ill. Thank God nothing happened on the train coz I threw up a couple of times when I reached home. Gross I know. Lol. Went to the doctor after that.I haven't had anything to eat since lunch yesterday. Yesterday night I was so hungry that I just could cry because I wanted to eat so badly but didn't have the appetite to eat a single thing. The doc advised me not to eat yet but drink plenty of fluid especially 100 plus or coconut water. Today when I got up I felt like eating porridge but I just couldn't. Still no appetite. I feel bloated tho

I remember back in the late 90's when I was in school we just studied the term internet and Google was in its infancy and very few websites came to exist. Back then, the major players in search were Yahoo, AltaVista, HotBot , Infoseek! In the mid-to-late 90's, SEO had sprouted and pranks on the web were using more of black hat SEO techniques such as doorway pages, sneaky server side redirects, spider spoofing and a slew of other controversial techniques. Of course, search engine guidelines for SEO didn’t exist nor “Best Practices SEO” for that matter in those days. Come 2000-2001, that all changed when sites were getting banned left and right for using those sort of "black hat SEO" techniques.Here we are in December 2007 and black hat techniques are still running strong. Just the oth

Last night, 12 December 2007, this was captured at Causeway Point Prima Deli Cake shop. We thought it would be opened. The children were saying,”Yesterday Prima Deli opened already!” But they were surprised to see this. They told me, “Hey, the paper changed already!” Yes, indeed. A new piece of paper [...]

Red Tape, the technology blog at MSNBC.com, has an interesting article discussing a new term to me called "Google Poisoning". Google Poisoning is when a group of sites organize a sophisticated attack to take over top spots in search results. The poisoners then use their top positions to redirect users to a maze of redirected sites in order to infect vulnerable computers with spyware and whatever else they care to install. You can see an example from the most recent Google poisoning attack in the picture provided by Sunbelt Software, the Security firm who first discovered the attack..Sunbelt Software found that a simple search for something like "funny dog picture" on Google directed searchers to Web sites hosted on Chinese domains. People who visited those sites were asked to install "Spy-Shredder" a rogue anti-spyware program.Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software, says he was amazed at the scale and sophistication of the attack by people he calls "SEO Gods". In the most recent

Once the news came out about significant levels of lead in children's' toys, it only made sense to broaden the investigation of potentially harmful toys to our four legged-friends. Locally, Fox 12 News spent about a month looking in to the potential correlations between toys for children and toys for dogs, and what they found is not only disturbing, but enlightening as well...Below is a link to the Fox 12 Special Report detailing their investigation and their findings. This link is used with permission from Fox News in Chicago.http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=5056125For those that cannot view the link, here are the highlights of the story:-Significant levels of lead have been found in several toys designed for dogs.-Despite the stories, unsafe lead paint levels are not restricted to one country of origin.-Dogs chew their toys (as designed) more so then children, heightening their risk.-A particular tennis ball had the highest levels of lead, over 30,0

Once the news came out about significant levels of lead in children’s’ toys, it only made sense to broaden the investigation of potentially harmful toys to our four legged-friends. Locally, Fox 12 News spent about a month looking in to the potential correlations between toys for children and toys for dogs, and what they [...]

I am a man. I am not complex. Like some dinosaurs I am a meat eater. I go out to the wilderness (the supermarket) and hunt my prey (Beef, Chicken and more Beef). I want, expect and demand that for the effort I put in, I get rewarded by being given man treats such as New York Strip steak, Ribeye, and big thick Angus beef hamburgers and I rarely bitch and complain about birds like Chicken and Turkey. As a man, feed me man foods. That is all I ask. Before tonight, I have never had to complain about man foods and my eating habits. Yet my wife, my equal in the cave has purchased ground turkey and plans on making turkey meatballs. She expects me to try this willingly, to declare to the world that substituting turkey for my favorite cow is an acceptable thing. She screams out, “It’s better for you!” in which I yell back, “NOT IF I STARVE TO DEATH BECAUSE I WON’T EAT IT” Immediately and without hesitation I began to whine like a two year old. Man likes meat

Amit Klein finally released his research on Windows DNS Server Cache Poisoning today. He discovered the vulnerability that enables DNS cache poisoning attack against the Windows DNS server back in April. It took Microsoft over 6 months to come up with a patch. The weakness found is in the transaction ID generation algorithm. This is very similar to some of Amit's earlier research on Bind 8 & 9

By June Tanner How many times have you been eating those chocolate chip cookies with milk when you look over and see those soulful puppy dog eyes staring at you? While the saddest begging look creeps across his face and he lets out the most pathetic whimper, a dog wanting chocolate can weaken the most stoic [...]

Jane Seymour Jane Seymour won’t be joining “Dancing with the Stars” because she’s got food poisoning. She is currently resting and recovering.And hopefully to be back next week! I wonder what did she eat? Source Technorati Tags: celebrity gossip jane seymour

You thought that carbon monoxide is an evil gas that kills silently.This odourless and colorless “silent killer” is not always satanic. It has been studied on rats that it could benefit in multiple sclerosis.And recently it’s possible use in transplantation of organs has been reported. Through the injection of certain protein concoction, a disease similar

With all this talk recently of lead in this and lead in that, you should probably learn some lead poisoning symptoms, so you can spot any negative effects as early as possible. Here are some common signs that you may be suffering from lead poisoning.  reduced cognitive abilities nausea abdominal pain irritability insomnia metal taste in the mouth lethargy (and sometimes hyperactivity) headache bluish line along the gums (Burton's line) - less common in children constipation poor appetite Of course, many of these symptoms could be indicative of a number of health problems, but regardless of the source, you should always find out why you are experiencing them. Don't hesitate to see your doctor if you have a number of these symptoms and think you may have been exposed to unsafe levels of lead. Whether you suffer from lead poisoning symptoms or not, you should be giving your body a fighting chance against any disease through a healthy diet and exercise.Sources: FitBuff

Children’s toys are constantly being recalled for the use of lead paint, and so it should be. We don’t want “our future” to get lead poisoning before they can even walk, but what about those of use that can walk. More precisely, what about those of us, who can walk, talk, and apply their favorite lipstick while driving down the highway (totally dangerous, and possibly illegal)? Continue Reading…

A study conducted by the University of Missouri suggests red wine helps fight off food poisoning and a virus linked to stomach ulcers.In the study researchers wanted to find if red wine had additional health benefits beyond the positive cardiovascular findings of previous studies. The Missouri scientists found that red wine helps fight E coli, Salmonella and Listeria, all common food poisoning pathogens. The study also suggests red wine helps prevent the spread of Helicobacter pylori, which causes stomach ulcers.The researchers said that the alcohol in red wine plays a role, as does acidity.The compound resveratrol, which is found in red grape skins, is also believed to play a part because white wine did not have the same impact of food borne illness pathogens.

YOUR BABY WILL EAT AND DRINK ALMOST ANYTHING!Keep all liquids and solids that may be poisonous out of their reach. Use child−resistant packaging to help prevent poisonings with medicines and household chemicals. Each year poison control centers report nearly one million children under the age of five are exposed to potentially poisonous medicines and household chemicals.Medicines (especially iron pills and food supplements containing iron), household substances, insect sprays, kerosene, lighter fluid, some furniture polishes, turpentine, points, solvents, and products containing lye and acids are most frequently the cause of accidental poisoning among children.ALWAYS RETURN TO SAFE STORAGE IMMEDIATELY (locked up − away from children)Never leave a bottle of aspirin or other pills where children can reach it Return it to a safe place immediately after using.MEDICINES ... are often swallowed by young children who find medicines where their grandparents have left them. Grandparents −

I received this article via email about the hidden Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in our food. I had been holding off writing a post about it because I could not find the original source. I apologize in advance if this is your work. Whoever wrote this definitely deserves the credit. I figured since the article was inspired by the book The Slow Poisoning of America and the author of the article claims to be a friend of the book’s author...we’ll call it good enough. When I think of MSG, I think of Chinese Food. I do always ask for no MSG in my food at a Chinese restaurant. It’s become such a habit, I forget exactly why other than that it’s a chemical that I don’t want in my food. I had NO idea that so many restaurants and companies were using MSG in their products. Again, I had NO idea that it is also called “Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein”, “Aginomoto” or “Natural Meat Tenderizer”. Apparently there are many other names for MSG

Mercury is a toxic metal that has been shown to interfere with immune function, has been linked to heart disease and strokes, can damage the nervous system of unborn children and may contribute to autism.Symptoms such as headaches, irritability, memory loss, confusion, tremors, numbness and tingling in hands and feet, loss of scalp hair, depression and metalic tast in mouth were found to be related to mercury poisoning from eating fish by one internal medicine specialist.Tuna, marlin, shark, swordfish, Chilean sea bass and grouper are known to have high levels of mercury in their flesh but this is only one way adults and children are exposed to this toxic metal. Mothers can pass mercury to their babies prior to birth or through breast milk afterwards.How fish become contaminated with mercu

Article Title: Prevent Pooch Poisoning!Author: Joann HenryMost people know, unless they have been on some deserted islandfor decades, that chocolate is not only bad for dogs, it can bepotentially deadly to them. There are some other foods that areperfectly safe for all of us to consume, but could cause somevery toxic reactions to your little four legged friend shouldthey ingest them. Keeping in line with the whole chocolate theme, any candy,chewing gum or breath fresheners that contain xylitol could alsohave a lethal effect on your pup. I am sure that some of us haveconsidered tossing our pooch a mint to help combat theirhalitosis, but there are special dog treats and bones that aresold in both pet stores and grocery stores that will help takecare of that problem. Some of the other foods that are harmful are no real surprise,either. Salt is just not very good for any of us and dogs are noexception. A few of the items listed would probably not enterinto your mind as a p

Various drugs taken by the elderly can interact dangerously. Some drugs use the same metabolic pathway and, thus, compete with one another, which can result in hazardous blood levels of one or more drugs. Some drugs cause effects like dehydration that reduce kidney function and the ability to eliminate drug metabolites. The combined effects of some drugs can be more potent than the prescriber intended. New York Times September 18, 2007

A lawsuit against Mattel was filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court. The Mattel class action lawsuit seeks monetary damages that will go towards testing children for lead poisoning because of the paint used on the toy products. The massive Mattel recall involved toys made in China that were manufactured with lead paint and also toys that had small magnets that could fall off and choke small children. The Mattel lawsuit is the first of its kind, but more litigation of the same nature will likely follow.

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Emory University has defined for the first time how metal ions bind to amyloid fibrils in the brain in a way that appears toxic to neurons. Amyloid fibrils are linked to the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Science Daily August 14, 2007

Food poisoning is one of the most common disorders faced in every country nowadays. Though the disorder is negligible, at times it may lead to life threatening conditions in some typical cases. Food poisoning is considered as the common term for health problems occurring by eating contaminated foods. The foods could get contaminated by [...]

Police were investigating the deaths of eight poison victims who allegedly died after giving thousands of dollars (euros) to men claiming to be sorcerers, officials said Wednesday. Six men were detained for questioning in the Lebak district, 100 kilometers (60 kilometers) west of Jakarta, after the bodies of the victims were dug out of shared graves in May and June, said local police chief Lt. Col. Dwi Gunawan. The victims were allegedly tricked into believing the "wizards" could make them wealthy by taking part in a ritual during which they were instructed to drink a potion. "The victims were asked to get into a hole after drinking poison," said Gunawan "When the victims collapsed they buried them."

Early Carbo Monoxide PoisoningSmoking cessation clinics provide a new opportunity to detect early carbon monoxide poisoning.Results from routine carbon monoxide (CO) testing in the breath of people attending such clinics or GP support services can alert healthcare professionals to patients who are suffering from chronic, low-level CO poisoning.A recent incident at a smoking cessation clinic in Surrey alerted the HPA to this opportunity when a patient attending the clinic continued to have high levels of CO in their exhaled breath, even after they had stopped smoking. Further investigation led to the discovery that the patient was being exposed to low levels of CO in their home due to a faulty gas appliance. This case highlighted an extra opportunity to detect CO exposure in the home.Chronic exposure to levels of CO which do not produce immediately recognisable adverse effects, can nonetheless harm health. If a patient is found to have higher than expected levels of CO in their exhaled

Multinational fruit company Chiquita likes to boast of its high social and environmental standards, but its Costa Rican subsidiary COBAL has sacked two union members for complaining about being exposed to a toxic chemical. Alexander Reyes Zuniga, Jaime Blanco Juarez and Marco Gonzalez Borge reported to their supervisors that spraying of a toxic nematicide (used for killing worms in banana tree roots) was going on in the same area as they were harvesting bananas. They became nauseous and dizzy and Jaime Blanco had to go straight to the doctor, where he was retained for tests for several hours. Alexander Reyes suffered symptoms of poisoning the following day, but was told to resume work regardless. The team complained to supervisors only to be accused of entering the area to be sprayed despite orders not to do so.Alexander.Alexander Reyes and Marcos Borge were sacked for misconduct. Chiquita management did not conduct any medical examination, did not give the statutory three warnings f

If you ran a business and some of your employees came to tell you that workers were being sprayed with a toxic chemical, wouldn't you listen to them?  And if it turned out to be true, wouldn't you praise them for reporting the problem?  That's not what Chiquita, one of the world's biggest and best known fruit companies, did.  Instead, they have sacked two union members (Alexander Reyes and Marcos Borge) and ignored their warnings.  They've refused to negotiate with the union, which has called for an international campaign of protest. Here you can protest. Andra bloggar om: Costa Rica, prostestera, protest, Labourstart, fackligt, facket, fackföreningar, mänskliga rättigheter, demokrati, yttrandefrihet

As compelling as the evidence is against PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), the key ingredient used in manufacturing Teflon, and the fact the EPA has called for a ban on it -- albeit a voluntary one -- hasn't stopped folks from defending it anyway.The case in point is yesterday's ridiculous attack by the Statistical Assessment Service at George Mason University (STATS) who claimed a piece in the most recent issue of Mother Jones on Teflon was more of a "scientifically illterate" Chicken Little tale than anything else.Among their "stronger" claims: PFOA may be a persistent chemical, but it has a half-life of four years in humans and is highly unreactive. If that's the case, why has the presence of PFOA been linked as of late to lower birth weights among newborn babies, who've probably never had contact with coated frying pans or popcorn bags?At the heart of this attack, in their minds, is the lack of evidence -- for now -- regarding Teflon toxicity, no doubt a product of the might a hug

Symptoms of staph food poisoning include nausea, vomiting, retching, stomach cramping, and diarrhea. In more severe cases, dehydration, headache, muscle cramping, and changes in blood pressure and pulse rate may occur. Symptoms generally come on quickly. How severe they are depends on your susceptibility to the toxin, how much contaminated food you ate, how much of the toxin you ingested, and your general health. The condition is generally over in 2 days; however, it is not unusual for complete recovery to take 3 days and sometimes longer in severe cases. - WebMD I met a guy in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica a few years ago who had come down with a case of food poisoning after eating undercooked chicken. He said he noticed the chicken looked odd, however ate it anyway (lesson: always trust your instincts). He described the next few days like death. The people at the hostel helped get him some antibiotic, I think, however he basically had to wait it out i

You know you are so deeply poisoned when;- you gonna take photos of every freaking plates of food before you place them in your mouth, so that you can post it at your blog.- you are not able to make any decision, you have to post it at your blog to ask for opinion. Red or black underwear.- at bloggers gathering, you dont wanna stay too late so that you can rush home to blog about it. How cool is that?- after each gathering, you will blog about it so many times that even Martians know about it.- your love ones know you more through your blog than in the real world.- you spend more time decorating your blog than you out under the sun. Geek.- ping.sg is your homepage to see if any of your entries are in the Top 10.- you open a standby page on http://ping.sg/myblogs, so that you can 'Update Now' it immediately after you post your latest entry. - you click that Ping.sg button 'Update Now' more than you click any hyperlinks, combined.- you know fellow bloggers by their nicks or their web

A WEALTHY Indonesian women who fell on hard times filmed her four children with her mobile phone after poisoning them, and then committed suicide – leaving a note saying she was taking them "to see heaven". The 35-year old woman recorded the dying moments of the children – aged 11 to one-and-a-half years old – with her mobile phone and the device was found near her head yesterday, detective Deky Hermansyah of the Malang city police said. "The family was quite affluent until October two year ago when the husband's business went bankrupt and he had to find work in Surabaya which made him rarely come home to Malang," the police inspector said.

 Photo: Peak Hill IndustriesNew research casts doubt on the belief that organophosphate poisoning causes symptoms of depression among Gulf War veterans and farmers, who are exposed regularly to these chemicals. Research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health casts doubt on the belief that organophosphate poisoning causes symptoms of depression among Gulf War veterans and farmers, who are exposed regularly to these chemicals. Several previous studies have found that people who are regularly exposed to organophosphates are more likely than the general population to have symptoms of depression, including irritability, difficulty concentrating and poor sleep patterns. But these studies do not prove that organophosphates are responsible for these symptoms. In a bid to look at the association more closely, researchers from the University of Bristol tested out the theory among older women between the ages of 60 and 79, who would not have been habitually exposed to orga

The usual cat poisoning symptoms are vomiting or diarrhea. Unfortunately, not all symptoms become immediately apparent. Often the affects of her consuming something poisonous are not revealed for several weeks. If you suspect cat poisoning, there are several situations when you should not induce vomiting. Sometimes a cat is poisoned [...]

{mosgoogle right}FUEFUKI, Yamanashi -- Two men died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning during a barbecue at a log cabin here, police said.At around 11:40 a.m. on Friday, an acquaintance found the two men unconscious in the cabin in Fuefuki, and alerted police. Officers confirmed that they were dead.The two have been identified as farmer Yoshiyuki Ono, 63, who owns the cabin, and Takafumi Sato, 54.The pair were holding a barbecue with four other friends out [...]

{mosgoogle right}BEIJING (AP) -- China's food exports to Japan, a key market, plunged 30 percent in February, hurt by a scare over poisoned Chinese-made dumplings, according to data reported Friday.Japan is the third-largest market for Chinese exporters of fish, dumplings and other processed food, and the drop in sales is a severe blow to the fast-growing industry.China's food exports to Japan in February totaled 186,000 tons, down 30 percent from the same month in 2007, [...]

Dallas, Texas (Caymanmama.com) -- You may remember two years ago when there was an outbreak of E. coli in spinach. It seems yet another produce has been contaminated by animal feces again. Recently, there have been 40 confirmed illnesses in Texas and New Mexico resulting from eating raw tomatoes contaminated ...