N.C. liked this article: Are you ready for a world without antibiotics? Here is a key quote: “Doctors and scientists have not been complacent, but the paper by Professor Tim
Walsh and colleagues takes the anxiety to a new level. Last September, Walsh published details of a gene he had discovered, called NDM 1, which passes easily between types of bacteria called enterobacteriaceae such as E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and makes them resistant to almost all of the powerful, last-line group of antibiotics called carbapenems. Yesterday’s paper revealed that NDM 1 is widespread in India and has arrived here as a result of global travel and medical tourism for, among other things, transplants, pregnancy care and cosmetic surgery.”
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RFJ spotted this over at Instructables: Easy Bike Trailer Hitch.
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Cheryl sent this: Former Pakistani Intel Chief Fears WWIII Imminent
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Rourke pointed us to a useful list over at Off-Grid.net: Books for Living Off The Grid.