Because the information describes a typical infection, it may not apply to each individual experience of foodborne illness.Common Foodborne Pathogens and Toxins in the U.S. [read post]

While the bridled white-eye from Guam would no doubt had fallen victim to the non-native and highly invasive brown tree snake which was accidentally taken over there from New Guinea. [read post]

Afghanistan: A Distant War Robert Nickelsberg; Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson; Introduction by Ahmad Nader Nadery Prestel USA (2013) The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence Susie Linfield University of Chicago (2012) By mid-20th century, photography had evolved from its 19th century origins as a rarified domain of professional photographers into a technology of the masses; the Kodak Instamatic generation embraced the “decisive moment” through the power of emulsion. [read post]

The torture of sensory deprivation by isolating a detainee in a single small room, sometimes with black-out goggles over his eyes and sound-stopping plugs for his ears, and sometimes with the prisoner being kept in a tiny slot the size of a coffin, was carried on for years with regard to some prisoners, with the prisoners also being subjected to other tortures during this period. [read post]