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Hourglass

Bird flu: South Korean troops sent to slaughter poultry

Seoul, South Korea - South Korea dispatched 200 soldiers to chicken farms Wednesday to slaughter poultry infected with bird flu, as the government confirmed another outbreak of the disease.


Heart - Black

Flashback Hurting you isn't something narcissists do by accident

In all the jabber about narcissism, the worst noise is this idea that hurting you is something narcissists do by accident.

If you get nothing else out of "What Makes Narcissists Tick," get the message that frees you of that ridiculous belief. Which is nothing but a baseless assumption.

I don't ask you to take my word for this. Test what I say when I say that narcissists hurt you on purpose. Anyone can test any narcissist.

Echo and Narcissus
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Echo and Narcissus, by John William Waterhouse

Comment: If you can relate to the topic discussed in this article - and suspect that somebody in your life is trying to manipulate you in similar ways, there is help.

First, however, it is your responsibility to become informed - here's a good start:
Narcissism Victim Syndrome - a new diagnosis?


Health

Common fears often influenced by genetics, shows twin study

The genetic factors that are associated with fears seem to change as children and adolescents age. According to a report in the April issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA/Archives journal, some hereditary factors decrease in importance while others appear or become more important over time.

During childhood and adolescent development, the nature itself of common fears change. There are two major hypotheses proposed for the genetic basis of this observation. According to the authors: "The 'developmentally stable' hypothesis predicts that a single set of genetic risk factors impacts the level of fears at age 8 years and these same genes constitute the only genetic influences on fear-proneness throughout development." They continue,"By contrast, the 'developmentally dynamic' hypothesis predicts that genetic effects on fear-proneness will vary over time."

Syringe

How to prevent vaccine injury

It is a colossal failure on the part of our government to not warn parents of the actual risks associated with vaccines. The blind insistence that vaccines are safe and effective is not supported by science, at least for a significant number of our children. There are now 25,000 children per year developing autism (1 in 150), a problem that has expanded in direct proportion to the increase in vaccinations. How do you know if your child is at risk?

The government's primary goal appears to be to prevent parents, en masse, from refusing to vaccinate their children. To prevent such a "run on the public health bank" all caution is being recklessly thrown to the wind. American children are now the most vaccinated people in the world. What are we actually doing? The vaccination problem needs to be objectively solved so that public health is maintained, yet needless vaccine injury is avoided.

Stormtrooper

Caution - Bullies at work: Indonesia criticized for unwillingness to share bird flu virus samples

U.S. carps at Indonesia for unwillingness to cooperate when it comes to production of lifesaving vaccines.

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Indonesia criticized for unwillingness to share bird flu virus samples

Ambulance

Marler Clark Sees Pattern in Malt-O-Meal Salmonella Outbreaks

SEATTLE - Residents of Maine and Minnesota are confirmed infected with Salmonella Agona, the strain of Salmonella identified in the Malt-O-Meal recall, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that at least 14 other states are reporting illnesses. Two victims have been hospitalized in Maine, and more than 23 cases are under investigation by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Health

Indonesia, US must cooperate on bird flu: US official

Indonesia and the United States must work together to prevent a global bird flu pandemic, the top US health official said here Monday.

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R)and US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt (L)

Coffee

Fungus Fight: Researchers Battle Against Dangerous Corn Toxin

The spiraling use of corn for food and fuel is creating heightened concerns about contamination of this staple crop with deadly aflatoxin. Produced by certain fungi that grow on corn, this contaminant is a known human carcinogen that especially threatens food safety in the developing world and can potentially cause the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States each year.

People

New Zealand: Transforming the lives of deaf children

Newborn hearing screening is transforming the lives of deaf children

The combination of newborn hearing screening and other developing technologies promises to qualitatively change life expectations for children who are born with impaired hearing, the National Screening Unit's conference was told today.

Professor Greg Leigh from the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children and the University of Newcastle told delegates in Wellington that the most notable among these developments has been the increasing accessibility of cochlear implantation. Since universal screening was introduced in New South Wales, the age at which children receive a cochlear implant has been consistently falling.

Attention

Gov't raises safety questions about chemical in plastics

Washington - A chemical used to make baby bottles and other shatterproof plastic containers could be linked to a range of hormonal problems, a preliminary government report has found.