No. the mutation is resistant to ALL antibiotics bar a couple of old and pretty useless ones.
We may need it. Or perhaps really, the death of 40% of the world population is what we really need?
In article , Grimly Curmudgeon scribeth thus
Was demolishing /clearing out my old dads shed and using a sledgehammer which almost "walloped" a case of railway detonators which he "borrowed" when he worked on the railways;!!
A very nice man from Railtrack collected them..
In article , fred writes
Ok, it's later:
Anyone remember Hill Street Blues? Let's be careful out there :-)
story.
Agreed the media aren't hyping it up a great deal, if anything they are playing it down and not without reason.
Not sure that is quite right.
The NDM-1 emzyme that these bacteria produce conveys resistance to the carbapenem antibiotics, these are the "last line of defence". The big worry is that the gene that codes for the emzyme is easy to transfer from bacteria to bacteria and that it will find it's way into one of the existing multi-resistant bacterial strains that are out there. You then have a bug that is multi-resistant including the last line of defence carbapenems.
Remember the drama series Danger UXB many years back? ISTR that quite frequently the episode would cover some strange form of explosive device, and it would generate a number of calls from the public when they suddenly realised that the WWII keepsake they had knocking about in a draw was actually an anti personnel mine or similar. Shame they have not repeated that...
I have a 1917 3" brass shell casing on the mantlepiece which I'm told my grandfather brought back with him, and polished up as a varse. I believe this was very common at the time and they were referred to as "trench art". It is obviously empty though.
At around age 2 or 3 (I barely remember the incident), I pushed a plug partly into a socket and then touched the pins and got a shock. That's many years before the semi-insulated pins.
I was well into electricty by age 8 or 9, and thinking back I'm very pleased my dad encouraged this, but slightly amazed he let me play with mains at that time. One of my pocket money purchases was a 4 way socket block, which was about the time they first appeared. It came from "Shop on the Bridge" (Milne) in Reading, and it was crap quality. I had got used to aligning the plug pins with the socket, and then thumping the plug a few times to make it go in. On one occasion, the back fell off a plug between the second and third thumps, and my first smashed down on the live parts. I had a mark from that for years, but I can't see it now.
Another incident I recall was playing with neon indicator lamps, probably about same age as above (and I recall using the 4-way socket block). A couple running off mains through dropper resistors. I leant on the wiring and accidently shorted out one of the resistors. The neon exploded, and most of the glass embedded itself in the wall, which taught me what an unballasted discharge lamp could do.
BTW, you can only be electrocuted once, and you can't talk about it afterwards....
The first rule of electrocution is that you don't talk about electrocution?
:o)
(Yes, yes, I know...)
Did he also wrap your sandwiches in a road map? ;)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) saying something like:
In Glasgow Central Station there was a small WW1 monument which was built from a central 15" shell (complete, but without explosives), surrounded by smaller calibre shells. All nicely polished up and kept clean over the decades by station staff. It disappeared years ago, into storage, but I don't know if it's been brought back out since I last was there. There were similar monuments up and down the country.
Not actually true, you can die and be resuscitated.
In article , dennis@home scribeth thus
Raising the dead now Dennis added to your list of Skills?.
Better hurry up and tell the Pope, I'm sure he'd like to know about that you might put him out of a job, so perhaps best not eh;?...
I always found it odd when my (paramedic) daughter used the phrase "I got him back" when refering to saving a cardiac arrest patient. They are apparently trained to consider the patient 'dead'. Its a way of coping I guess. If someone is 'dead' you can't blame yourself if you can't save him, if you do 'get him back' its a bonus.
Somewhat gruesome, but they are also trained to ignore damage to ribs whilst doing CPR, on the grounds that if they "get him back" the ribs can be sorted afterwards. She has mentioned hearing & feeling bones breaking on elderly patients.
That was a great series. Just looked - 1979!
They don't make drama like that nowadays thee knows.
Same in our family: except ours is just the bottom one inch of the shell, and is therefore an ashtray rather than a vase!
David
See, I always knew smoking was dangerous...
David
And no doubt she is as irritated as my medic-SWMBO is by TV dramas where it's almost guaranteed that application of paddles to chest will result in a successful resussitation in 99% of attempts, whereas the reality is that in the majority of cases it doesn't work...
...and you hope you aren't working on an American tourist who, if your attempts are successful, will promptly sue you for the injuries caused :-(
David
Would you please show me how that is done with you as the subject?
Or might help keep the current incumbent in position for longer than would be possible with animatronics
Owain
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