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New Superbug Found in Britain is Major Concern (SuperDuper Bug, Patients having surgery abroad)
Telegraph/UK ^ | 08.08 2009 | Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor

Posted on 08/15/2009 9:18:29 AM PDT by justkate

A new superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics has been brought into Britain by patients having surgery abroad, Government scientists said.

Doctors are urged to be vigilent for a new bug that has arriving in Britain with patients who have travelled to India and Pakistan for cosmetic surgery or organ transplants and is now circulating here.

New Superbug Found in Britain

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bocare; healthcare; socializedmedicine; travel
Couldn't find this in Search...but thought it was worth posting again in view of the vocal defense from the Left of the NIH this past week.
1 posted on 08/15/2009 9:18:30 AM PDT by justkate
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To: justkate

This is in our future if Congress and BO manage to destroy our health care system and we have to start going overseas to obtain needed treatment.


2 posted on 08/15/2009 9:22:09 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: justkate

Oh yeah, British healthcare is SOOOO great, patients feel the need to travel to f$%king INDIA and PAKISTAN to get and ORGAN TRANSPLANT!!!!!!!!!!

Nice. Fox News needs to get hold of this. Rush too.


3 posted on 08/15/2009 9:23:36 AM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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To: justkate
How Ironic Btw, does anybody know why the Independent does not use php or asp.net? If you didn't understand that question, don't worry.
4 posted on 08/15/2009 9:36:30 AM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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To: ronnietherocket2

what makes you think they don’t use it?


5 posted on 08/15/2009 9:51:44 AM PDT by willyd (My Driver's License is under Obama's Birth Certificate officer.)
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the link takes me to an html page that has no GET information in the address making me think that they hardlink to their stories. The way I would do it is have a generic news page that connects to the server and loads the appropriate story. I would have guessed they use POST to transfer the request, but the address includes the article name.

If you did not understand that, do not worry.


6 posted on 08/15/2009 10:04:51 AM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

ping...


7 posted on 08/15/2009 11:00:07 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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How do you eliminate the standing-wave effect in negative photoresist when printing on an sio2 substrate that is 13,000 angstroms thick?

If you do not understand, do not worry.

8 posted on 08/15/2009 11:44:32 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

the if you did not understand... stuff was for other people who would be casually reading the responses and hit that and go, whiskey tango foxtrot.

I believe you deposit a 1.3 micron SiO2 substrate, with a reflective layer deposited above it, I am not sure about the necessary thickness, followed by a layer of a birefringent materials, again unsure of the thickness, but use something other than cellophane. A layer of photoresistent materials should follow. This layer will need to be photoexposed. A good choice for photoexposing it would be a actinic photoexposure beam.

That said, all -ve photoresists that I have heard of are polymers, and SiO2 is not a polymer. I doubt you could chain SiO2 molecules in the method necessary to make a polymer with out having to have the Oxygen molecules bond with something else, but then it wouldn’t be SiO2, it would be something else.


9 posted on 08/15/2009 12:12:32 PM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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To: Smokin' Joe
I was trying to look up the incidence and mortality of hospital acquired MRSA in the UK yesterday beacuse I read that either the incidence or mortality is 5 - 6 times the rate of the US.

IIRC, the new bug is stenotrophomonas maltaphilia. They're calling it "steno" for short. I haven't read this story yet. We'll see how wrong I am on the spelling.

10 posted on 08/15/2009 12:34:42 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: ronnietherocket2

Excellent try. Use a non-reflective film though. Or, photoresist containing dye. Negative acting photoresist is seldom used anymore.


11 posted on 08/15/2009 1:38:12 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

I just did a google search for the stuff on there.


12 posted on 08/15/2009 2:56:35 PM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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To: La Lydia
This is in our future if Congress and BO manage to destroy our health care system and we have to start going overseas to obtain needed treatment.

I don't know how common it is, but I've read of Americans who've gone to India for things like hip replacements, people with no insurance that would cover it went there because the cost was much lower.

13 posted on 08/15/2009 3:12:23 PM PDT by Will88
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To: ronnietherocket2; blam
Too late! I'm worried.

Cheers!

14 posted on 08/15/2009 9:44:22 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ronnietherocket2

Oh...I guess you would be surprised to learn that you can write any extension you want to your url from your get or post variables using mod rewrite and regular expressions on the server side (if you are using a language like php). This means that an html extension and a direct link does not necessarily mean that the page isn’t dynamic. Here is an example...

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*).html$ /index.php?page=$1

Putting this in your .htaccess file will rewrite your links from index.php?page=$variable to $variable.html (assuming you have mod rewrite enabled in your PHP build)

This makes for easier navigation, relation of urls sens email, better SEarch Engine results, etc.


15 posted on 08/21/2009 7:17:25 PM PDT by willyd (I knew I had it in me to write the world's shortest novel.)
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To: willyd

Interesting, i am not familiar with htaccess.


16 posted on 08/21/2009 9:15:39 PM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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To: justkate

It probably doesn’t help that the Muslim nurses refuse to use the alcohol-based hand cleaner.


17 posted on 08/21/2009 9:27:22 PM PDT by giotto
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