Hello again, recent reports say that officials from Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital are expected to meet with at least twenty patients possibly affected by CJD later today. Beaumont medics discovered that instruments used during surgery on a patient subsequently found to be suffering from CJD were also used on at least twenty other patients. A help-line established by the hospital had over 1,000 calls yesterday alone.
Elsewhere we read that OECD moves to aid countries close loopholes (including tax loopholes) exploited by multinationals.
An outbreak of hepatitis A believed to be caused by imported frozen berries is reportedly on the increase. The outbreak is being monitored by the European Centre For Disease Control since January 2013 and they recently asked European countries to raise awareness of a possible increase in hepatitis A cases. It is believed that 3 Irish people in their thirties and forties with no known links to each other, and from different parts of the country have been affected.
Yesterday FSAI (Food Safety Authority of Ireland) issued warnings about the need to boil all imported frozen fruit.
They also said that of the ten known cases of Hepatitis A in Ireland only 5 are linked to imported frozen berries.
In Italy a food poisoning outbreak has infected 448 people this year.
CAN YOU SOLVE THESE RIDDLES:
I fasten it and it walks: unfasten it and it stops. What is it?
I have no bones and no legs, but if you keep me warm I will soon walk away. What am I?
I know a word of letters three.
Add two and fewer there will be.
What is the word?
Answers tomorrow
Answers to yesterday’s stuff:
There is no dirt in a hole
One scent.
They are both interested in outerspace.
INSPIRATION: An unreflected life is the only life not worth living.
- Socrates
ON THIS DAY: July 20th 1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1944 There was an attempt to kill Hitler when a bomb exploded at his Ratsenburg HQ but he was only wounded.
1969 Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin were the first people to walk on the moon.
WORDS TO THE WISE:
Knowledge was inherent in all things.
The world was a library and its books
Were the stones, leaves, grass, brooks…
We learned to do what only the students
Of nature ever learn, and that was
To feel beauty.
- Luther Standing Bear (1868-1939)
The hours when the mind
is absorbed by beauty
Are the only hours we live.
- Richard Jeffries (1848-1887)
SACRED SPACE:
"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." - Chief Aupumut, Mohican. 1725 SMILE A WHILE!
What do you get if you cross a giraffe with a husky dog?
An Animal that barks at low flying aircraft.
What do you call a big white bear with a hole in the middle?
A polo bear.
Why is a polar bear cheap to have as a pet?
It lives on ice.
Be gentle with yourself
Valerie
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