Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 12, 2009
The 1918 swine flu started in the United States and spread quickly, helped in part by thousands of troops being shipped back and forth across the Atlantic.
That was an H1N1, just like this one, and just like the last one, it spread world-wide, was mild, albiet with some resulting fatalities, but so it goes with [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: November 14, 2008
Haven’t posted for a while due to dilemma interuptions.
After evicting a tenant who hadn’t paid rent for three months, I discovered upon return to the house, by unexpectedly splashing through water going downstairs, that a metre of water in the drywalled basement meant I had an unexpected indoor swimming pool.
I hadn’t re-rented the place right away [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
I wouldn’t do this, but after listening the other day to a radio announcer harp on a Liberal campaign television attack ad on the listeriosis deaths, and just now reading his piece, I’m prompted to write.
Now 19 people have reportedly lost their lives to the listeriosis outbreak caused by contaminated food, including cold cut meat, [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: August 28, 2008
What better election plank than food safety?
Fifteen Canadians dead eating tainted lunch meat, and Canada’s Health Minister doesn’t pause in his playing Obama groupie in Denver, rather than considering the Maple Leaf Foods listeriosis crisis is crisis enough to come home to attend to.
All this on the heels of government plans to cut health inspections.
Luc [...]
