If you’re flying to Beijing for the Olympics …

Make sure you sample the barreled water

In China’s southwestern province of Guizhou, polluted barreled water has made more than 200 ill. The victims feel ill with hepatitis A.

“The source of the water was heavily polluted and its production lacked strict sterilization,” according to Beijing News. News Report

According to a report, about half the water used in coolers in the Olympics host city could be tainted.

Hep A: An acute infectious disease of the liver

Hepatitis A, (formerly known as infectious hepatitis), is an acute infectious disease of the liver caused by Hepatitis A virus, which is most commonly transmitted by the fecal-oral route via contaminated food or drinking water. Every year, approximately 10 million people worldwide are infected with the virus. The time between infection and the appearance of the symptoms, (the incubation period), is between two and six weeks and the average incubation period is 28 days.

Electron micrograph of hepatitis A virions.

In developing countries, and in regions with poor hygiene standards, the incidence of infection with this virus approaches 100% and the illness is usually contracted in early childhood. Hepatitis A infection causes no clinical signs and symptoms in over 90% of these children and since the infection confers lifelong immunity, the disease is of no special significance to the indigenous population. In Europe, the United States and other industrialised countries, on the other hand, the infection is contracted primarily by susceptible young adults, most of whom are infected with the virus during trips to countries with a high incidence of the disease. (Source: Wikipedia)

EPA Sued Over GHG Pollution

The states of Massachusetts, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday for failing to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and trucks. The lawsuit came one year after the Supreme Court ruled that the agency had the power to do so.

Main Entry: 18 States Sue EPA Over GHG Pollution
Original Report: 18 states sue EPA over greenhouse gas pollution

Air New Zealand Fumigates Passengers

A blatant act of criminal negligence by the malevolent New Zealand Government

In yet another blatant act of criminal negligence by the malevolent New Zealand Government and its corporate sector, the passengers arriving aboard Air NZ flight were fumigated in Auckland.

The spraying left passengers with sore throats and caused at least one baby to gag and vomit. “Even now I have a real raspy throat so you could imagine what the effect would be on an infant.”

Main Entry:

Bend Over, Spread Your Legs and say Baa . . .

Related Links:

Don’t Take Your Children To New Zealand

How many are up there polluting our skies?

There’s a fundamental systemic problem. It’s called exponential growth economy and it’s degrading, polluting, tearing apart, destroying and otherwise killing off everything in its domain. In the absence of a ‘radical’ change to the economic system our world is rapidly falling apart.

Related Link: World Problems: The Root Cause Matrix

Worldwide Airport Traffic Summary [YE December 2007]

Passengers : 4,479,822,865 (Up 6.4% YoY)

Air Freight (Mt) : 80,342,643 (Up 2.5% YoY)

Aircraft Movements : 68,636,424 (Up 2.4% YoY)

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Note: Total passengers are rounded off to the nearest 10,000
Source: Airports Councils International

“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!” ~ Henry David Thoreau

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