[UK's Bureau of Investigative Journalism] Pigs on Norwegian farms became infected with a superbug common in the Danish herd - despite Norway having a near total ban on live imports - through farm workers who had worked abroad, a study has found.
Researchers looked at three outbreaks of a livestock variant of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in Norwegian pigs and concluded they were very likely sparked by humans ‐ a transmission route that was previously unknown.
In two cases the bacterium was very similar to that found in Danish pigs and workers on the affected Norwegian farms had known contact with pig farms in Denmark. The third case also involved foreign farm workers, though it was not known whether the laborers had been in contact with livestock before entering Norway.
Norway has strict procedures in place to keep its herd disease-free and is now considering introducing mandatory screening of all farm workers before they enter pig farms. The approach is a marked contrast to that of the UK, which does not see Livestock Associated-MRSA (LA-MRSA) as a serious threat to animal or human health.
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flu is thought to be a disease that can readily go from human to pig and also from pig to human via inhilation
bacteria are tougher to transmit between species but still possible
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you assume inhalation?
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well, I assume inhalation for virus would be the dominant path
for bacteria, it could be from handling the animals where either the person or the animal or both have a cut or sore -- it could be when the person eats an undercooked animal -- it could be other paths
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Yesterday Matt Drudge warned us that NOAA was exaggerating the danger of Hurricane Matthew in order to hype the dangers of global warming. Liberals scoffed. But today, even the New York Times was forced to admit Drudge was right. Who's laughing now, libtards?
------- In retrospect, NOAA and the NHC were correct about the storm surge in GA and SC and mostly correct about the torrential rain in GA, SC and NC but wrong about the winds.
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Actually you can't "overhype" a category 4 storm. It is lethal.
The nonsense is to blame global warming. The Caribbean always had these storms. The Mayas and Aztecs feared them for a reason. These storms sank Spanish silver fleets.
NOAA just did its job. And yes, as it seems, the storm could have done more damage (in the U.S.). It certainly did in Haiti.
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Haiti, unfortunately, is brittle. As a society they do not invest in the things necessary to keep people from being killed by the predictable ravages of nature.
Burundi will withdraw from the international criminal court, an official has said, months after the court said it would investigate violence sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s re-election.
No country has ever withdrawn from the court, which pursues cases of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Burundi’s first vice-president, Gaston Sindimwo, said the government had presented a draft law in parliament to debate how it could withdraw. He accused the court of violating the rights of Africans.
Some African countries have threatened a withdrawal from the Rome statute, the treaty that created the ICC, accusing the court of disproportionately targeting the continent. Only Africans have been charged in the six cases that are ongoing or about to begin, though preliminary investigations have begun elsewhere.
Of the 122 countries that are parties to the Rome statute, 34 are African, the largest continental bloc.
Tom Maliti, of the New York-based International Justice Monitor, which tracks ICC cases, said: “This is posturing. All a member state country needs to do to leave is write to the UN secretary general saying they wish to withdraw from the ICC, and a year after the day the secretary general receives the letter, the country will no longer be a member.”
An ICC spokesman, Fadi El Abdallah, said the court had not received any official information about a possible withdrawal by any state. “Burundi is an important state party, and we look forward to Burundi continuing to be part of the ICC’s future,” El Abdallah said.
Hundreds of people have died in Burundi since Nkurunziza pursued and won a third term that many call unconstitutional. Since his candidacy was announced in April 2015, there have been violent protests, forced disappearances and assassinations. More than 260,000 people have fled the country. The ICC said in April it would investigate.
African threats to withdraw from ICC increased after the court indicted Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, on charges of crimes against humanity for post-election violence in 2007 in which more than 1,000 people died. The ICC prosecutor later said a lack of cooperation by Kenya’s government had led to the case’s collapse.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Daily protests are now taking place in Sylhet demanding capital punishment for Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... leader Badrul Alam for the brutal attack on Khadiza Akhter Nargis This is the girl who was attacked with a machete for turning down the guy's proposal or proposition or whatever it was.
The Sylhet public prosecutor assured the victim’s family that the trial will be historically swift. He made the statement when he visited them on Saturday afternoon.
He said: "Even our prime minister is concerned about this matter. We will resolve it swiftly."
Masuk Mia, the Saudi-residing father of Khadiza, told the Dhaka Tribune that he was grateful for the support of the media and the people of the country during this difficult time. He asked the people to support them until justice was carried out.
Sylhet Concerned Citizen’s Forum organised a protest in Tukerbazar on Saturday. Masuk Mia spoke along with AL Organisational Secretary Misbah Uddin Siraj and BNP General Secretary Ali Ahmad representing the district units. They later formed a human chain demanding capital punishment for Badrul.
Another protest was held by the Sylhet chapter of Sexual Harassment Elimination Network. Led by the District Advocate Committee’s president, the speakers demanded quick trial of Badrul for his criminal actions.
Shah Poran police OC Shahjalal Munshi told the Dhaka Tribune that they filed the charge sheet in record time. He said a lot still depends on Khadiza’s physical condition.
He added that he was closely following her medical status.
Sylhet Government Women’s College student Khadiza was injured grievously by a vicious hacking last Monday by Badrul, a leader of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology unit Chhatra League. She is now being treated at Square Hospital in Dhaka. Badrul has confessed to his crimes and now is in police custody.
Doctors on Saturday said that Khadiza’s condition was improving slowly.
She could move her right hand and right leg and respond with the right eye slightly, said Dr AM Rezaul Sattar, associate consultant of neurology department of the hospital.
"Khadiza is still not out of danger. We cannot predict much of her recovery at this stage. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the condition is better," said Mirza Nazim Uddin, consultant of the hospital’s Medicine and Critical Care Unit.
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North Korea is forcing an estimate 400,000 young soldiers to do hard labor and confiscating up to US$900 million from ordinary people every year, an activist group here said Wednesday. It all counts toward twenty, as we used to say (retirement).
Toward twenty what? I'm not familiar with that saying.
The International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea, in a report based on in-depth interviews with 18 defectors, said middle school graduates who either have no connections in the Workers Party or perform poorly in physical tests are forced into hard labor at construction sites while training as commandos. They must live in cramped shared accommodation and labor for around 10 years building roads, apartments, railways and power plants.
They spend around 10 years in service, laboring four hours in the morning and five in the afternoon for little or no pay. When pressed to meet deadlines, they labor until midnight and spend their breaks in indoctrination classes. They are fed just one bowl of corn rice per meal, and beatings and accidents are rampant.
The report said North Korean officials demand cash bribes for letting people keep their jobs, while housewives and students are forced to cough up money by collecting and selling paper or animal feces that are used as fertilizer.
The group said the money North Korean officials extort amounts to around 20 percent of monthly living costs.
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[DAWN] Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday took notice of an ’encounter’ by police officials of two students in the Nipa Chowrangi area of the metropolis on Friday night, said a spokesperson of CM House.
The provincial chief executive directed the Inspector General of Sindh Police to conduct a full inquiry to ascertain the veracity of the claims made by the relatives of the slain student, and asked for the report to be submitted after the inquiry's completion.
DIG East has been instructed to hold a transparent and impartial inquiry into the incident and submit a comprehensive report based on facts to ensure justice.
Shah vowed that if the police officials had misused their powers, strict action would be taken against them.
"If Ateequllah was a student and peaceful, justice would be provided to his parents," promised Shah.
Gulistan-e-Jauhar SHO Chaudhry Shahid on Friday night had claimed the death of Syed Ateequllah in an ’encounter’, and had also claimed that a pistol was seized from the individual.
Ateequllah’s counsin, Syed Azizullah was also injured in the alleged encounter.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Syed Matiullah, cousin of the dear departed told Dawn on Saturday night that Ateequllah was a cadet in Rangers Public School, located on Superhighway.
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In New York City’s Inwood neighborhood, a couple wrote their upstairs neighbor in their apartment building complaining about how he would "scream and stomp until almost 2 a.m."
The noisy neighbor, Richard Brookshire, issued a blistering response accusing his neighbors of racial aggression and calling their note a "direct threat".
"As a Black man, I take these overt actions as a direct threat to my physical and psychological well-being and as an act of violence upon me (see attached list of the 821 black men, women, and children killed by police or in police custody to date in 2016)," he wrote. "This threat cannot be taken lightly."
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It is called common courtesy. If you don't shut up, you haven't seen the level of violence that will be brought on you if you wake my ass up at 2am.
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I'm sure this upstairs holier-than-thou child of the welfare state wouldn't want to be my neighbor, my "white tears" only come in the .45 calibre size.
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Logical fallacy #1: Circumstantial ad hominem.
Logical fallacy #2: I do not know the proper name, but it's where one simply assumes the worst motives-wise.
Logical fallacy #3: A categorical fallacy in equating his being asked to be considerate of his neighbors' need to get some shuteye with those police shootings that were not in fact justified (and equating the justified cases with them as well).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dhaka Tribune] Daily protests are now taking place in Sylhet demanding capital punishment for 
