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   Yup, you green retards and your DDT ban .   
      
      
      
   "James"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns9E09ED00B1FDBgbczxbgfdz@94.75.214.39...   
   > Red State Pigs Infesting The Country With Bed Bugs, Deadly Chicken Eggs.   
   >   
   > Rightists are freedom hating pigs who live in squalor and eat their own   
   > shit.   
   >   
   > EL PASO, Texas -- All across the country, a pesky problem has been   
   > spreading all summer - bed bugs!.   
   >   
   > And El Paso's no different, local exterminators say bed bug calls have   
   > doubled since last year.   
   >   
   > "I thought I had a mosquito bite, " but then after noticing a pattern,   
   > Charlene Thomasson, a bed bug victim, said it became pretty obvious it was   
   > something different. "If you've got bites in a row, or in a triangle like   
   > I did, then that's a pretty good indication."   
   >   
   > Contrary to the name, bed bugs are not limited to beds, offices are also   
   > becoming a preferred haven for the little parasite.   
   >   
   > Bed bugs are innovative with how they get around from place to place.   
   >   
   > "They hitchhike on anything," Thomasson said. "So, it could've been a   
   > backpack that entered my house, it could've been through clothes that I   
   > purchased."   
   >   
   > The proficient travelers are visible to the naked eye and look like pepper   
   > flakes. Their bites hurt but they don't carry any diseases. They feed on   
   > human blood but can live up to a year without eating.   
   >   
   > "I woke up one night and thought something was crawling, so I woke up and   
   > grabbed my flashlight and I looked, and sure enough, there was one in the   
   > bed," said Thomasson.   
   >   
   > The blood-sucking critters are nocturnal and getting rid of them can take   
   > some work, starting with washing bed sheets in hot water.   
   >   
   > "I pulled out everything from closets, drawers, I pulled everything from   
   > the bed," said Thomasson.   
   >   
   > That's not all, you also have to clear out your house for exterminators to   
   > spray every nook and cranny.   
   >   
   > Of course to avoid the mess, early detection is key to not letting those   
   > bed bugs bite.   
   >   
   > Half a billion US eggs are recalled   
   >   
   > (UKPA) - 19 hours ago   
   >   
   > More than half a billion eggs have been recalled in the US investigation   
   > of a salmonella outbreak that has expanded to include a second Iowa farm.   
   > The outbreak has already hit more than 1,000 people and the toll of   
   > illnesses is expected to increase.   
   >   
   > Iowa's Hillandale Farms said it was recalling more than 170 million eggs   
   > after laboratory tests confirmed salmonella. The company did not say if   
   > its action was connected to the recall by Wright County Egg, another Iowa   
   > farm that recalled 380 million eggs earlier this week.   
   >   
   > The latest recall puts the total number of potentially tainted eggs at   
   > about 550 million.   
   >   
   > FDA spokeswoman Pat El-Hinnawy said the two recalls are related. The   
   > strain of salmonella bacteria causing the poisoning is the same in both   
   > cases, salmonella enteritidis.   
   >   
   > Federal officials said it's one of the largest egg recalls in recent   
   > history. Americans consume about 220 million eggs a day, based on industry   
   > estimates. Iowa is the leading egg producing state.   
   >   
   > The eggs recalled were distributed under the brand names Hillandale Farms,   
   > Sunny Farms, Sunny Meadow, Wholesome Farms and West Creek. The new recall   
   > applies to eggs sold between April and August.   
   >   
   > Hillandale said the eggs were distributed to grocery distribution centres,   
   > retail groceries and food service companies which service or are located   
   > in fourteen states, including Arkansas, California, Iowa, Illinois,   
   > Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South   
   > Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.   
   >   
   > Thoroughly cooking eggs can kill the bacteria but health officials are   
   > recommending people throw away or return the recalled eggs.   
   >   
   > A food safety expert at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, said the source   
   > of the outbreak could be rodents, shipments of contaminated hens, or   
   > tainted feed. Microbiology professor Patrick McDonough said he was not   
   > surprised to hear about two recalls involving different egg companies,   
   > because in other outbreaks there have also been multiple sources.   
   >   
   > The salmonella bacteria is not passed from hen to hen, but usually from   
   > rodent droppings to chickens, he added. This strain of bacteria is found   
   > inside a chicken's ovaries, and gets inside an egg.   
      
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