I just booted up my computer this morning, and this was the article that was left in Internet explorer. Moe must have been catching up on the news last night and forgot to close it. Kids dying of a brain eating amoeba....disturbing start to my Saturday morning.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/17/amoeba.kids.deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
However, I think it is kind of backwards that CNN makes a huge front page article on this. It is very sad and when children are involved people want to read about it; however, they highlight the three people who have died from a rare brain eating amoeba, but don't have an article on the huge heroin epidemic that is developing across the United States? Or the million plus people who die a year from tobacco use? I think the world could use a front page wake up call calling out that the likelihood your child will die from tobacco use or heroin use is far greater than them taking a dip in a pond and having an amoeba climb up their nose and eat their brain. Sorry for the vent session, but I was listening to NPR/St. Louis Public Radio the other day, and I heard such a sad story about a mother that found her kid after a drug overdose. I put the article/podcast below in case you are interested, but it was about how heroin abuse has sky rocketed in Saint Louis this year as a result of how cheap it has become. People can become addicted in a short period of time for relatively cheap and can continue the addiction without the need to front a lot of cash. I believe they said that a single dose costs less than a six pack of beer. This fact blew me away. This is the kind of stuff that makes me terrified to have kids and not be able to sleep at night. However, I have to continually remind myself that somehow Moe and I turned out alright in this world so all we can do is hope for the same for when we have kids.
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/cheaper-six-pack-beer-more-potent-ever-fighting-rise-heroin-st-louis
- Miss J
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