05 June 2016

BOXING No longer a sport at HARROW SCHOOL

Boxing has been replaced by Judo & Karate/

Comment. No point in spending approx $250,000 to educate a brain only to have it intentionally damaged.

02 June 2016

DAILY MAIL: Prof Biomedical & Life Sciences Roger PICKUP at LANCASTER UNIV "World on brink of"dystopia" as antibiotics become useless; TB & Pneumonia to be mass killers.

COLISTIN RESISTANCE GROWING

Resistant TB will again become a mass killer.

Transplant operation will be impossible

Society behaviour will change; less physical contact.

As in Japan, masks will be more common.


COMMENT
N(iosh) 100 respirators with valve @ $10 made by 3M

Cloth gloves made by DENTS UK

30 May 2016

BRAZIL: MEDICAL & PERSONAL INJURY RISKS

INFECTION

Chikungunya 21,000 in 2015 Aedes aegypti A albopictus

Dengue 1.6-million in 2015  Aedes aegypti  A.albopictus

Leishmania infantum Transmitted by Sand Fly Lutzomyia longipalpis. Vector mainly dogs. Incidence 1.9/100,000.

Trypanosoma Cruzi (Chaga's Disease) " Barbiero" in Brazil. Spread through faeces of Triatomid insects; contaminated food; blood transfusion;.

Zika virus Aedes aegypti  & A.albopictus

BOMBING & SHOOTING eg 2013 Boston Marathon. ; 1972 Munich Olympics attack.

KIDNAPPING:: BBC reports in Mexico 270 a day kidnapping INSURANCE advised

25 May 2016

BMJ: ROTARIAN & UNITARIAN Dr Charles Killick MILLARD (1870-1952) MB CM(Edin) MD DSc

Founded Voluntary Euthanasia Legislative Society (now Dignity in Dying)

Medical Officer Health Leicester (1900-1935)

BMJ 1952 1,660-1

22 May 2016

WHO STATS 2016

HIGHEST  MALE  LIFE  EXPECTANCY

SWITZERLAND /\81.3; Iceland 81.2; Austria 80.9; Sweden 80.7; Israel 80.6; Japan & Italy 80.5; Canada 80.2

HIGHEST  FEMALE LIFE EXPECTANCY

JAPAN 86.8; Singapore 86.1; Spain & S.Korea 85.5; France 85.4; Switzerland 85.3; Australia 84.6

COMMENT: by blog.

SWITZ: Medical care covered by private insurers. Gov pays for insurance if necessary.

JAPAN> Heavy smokers but highest ratio of Hospital beds.

15 May 2016

SWITZERLAND The Local: Minimum Income

June 5 Swiss will vote on a minimum INCOME for all Swiss of CHF 2.500/month. = Can $ 3250, Cost of living in Switz approx twice that of Canada. McDonald's  Zurich Filet-of-Fish combo (small) Can$12..

09 May 2016

SPIEGEL ONLINE(ENGLISH) CHIKUNGUNYA IN NORTHERN ITALY

Tropical mosquitoes gain foothold in Europe, Important article free. Northern Italy: 1 dead 200 infected with Chikungunya virus, Traveller from India with Chikungunya virus bitten in Italy by
Asian Tiger mosquito,