Thursday, September 07, 2006

Let's Not Worry about Human Killers

There is worse to come! Microscopic mutants!

Featured on the BBC is this headline:
'Virtually untreatable' TB found
Transmission electron micrograph of TB (Science Photo Library/K Kim)
About 1.7 million people die from TB globally each year
A "virtually untreatable" form of TB has emerged, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Extreme drug resistant TB (XDR TB) has been seen worldwide, including in the US, Eastern Europe and Africa, although Western Europe has had no cases.

I don't know about everyone else out there, but I for one am startiong to get really scared about travel.

It does not seem to matter where you go - somewhere someone or something seems determined to kill you!

What really scares the heck out of me is that this item is buried on the back pages rather than screaming for attention on the front page.

At the end of the day this news, at least to my mind, has greater impact on the world we know than whether or not Mr Blair will survive politically for another few weeks or months.

Newspaper editors and people out there WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES before you stop breathing!

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