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Article on the HPV vaccine
"How am I going to be able to turn to my daughter when she's older and tell her, 'When you were younger, I had the chance of making sure you never got a certain type of cancer, and I decided not to do it' ?"
There ya go.
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100,000 dogs given second chance at life
Authorities in Indian-Administered Kashmir's main city have canceled plans to poison nearly 100,000 stray dogs as part of an anti-rabies program, an official said Friday after protests from animal rights groups.
Local officials would instead work on a plan to sterilize the strays in cooperation with animal welfare groups and a team from the federal environment ministry, said Syed Haq Nawaz, commissioner of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation.
"We're not going ahead with this poisoning. Not at all," Nawaz said.
Just the fact that they'd been planning it gives me the shivers. Without sterilization options, yeah, it might have been necessary--because of that sixty percent of the annual, global death rate from rabies--but still.
In New Delhi, one city councilor suggested shipping the country's strays to Korea, where dog meat is considered a delicacy.
*sigh* I'd say, hey, at least they're being eaten--except that, from shows/articles I've seen, they don't tend to treat their food dogs very humanely.
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Argh. PMS--check. Bad weather--check. Multi-day migraine--check. Started, as usual, in the evening, which means it'll probably stick around till tomorrow morning. If I ever have kidney failure, I'm blaming my damn migraines for making me take Tylenol every four hours on the fucking dot. (But at least the Tylenol works, and I don't have to take any other weird prescription drugs.)
I think next school year I'm gonna try out for the tutoring program at the kidlet's school. Three days a week, a hundred dollars a day; I could do most anything other than math or in-depth science. It's part time, I so very know my way around everything English/grammar-related, and an extra three hundred bucks a week is nothing to sneeze at.
"How am I going to be able to turn to my daughter when she's older and tell her, 'When you were younger, I had the chance of making sure you never got a certain type of cancer, and I decided not to do it' ?"
There ya go.
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100,000 dogs given second chance at life
Authorities in Indian-Administered Kashmir's main city have canceled plans to poison nearly 100,000 stray dogs as part of an anti-rabies program, an official said Friday after protests from animal rights groups.
Local officials would instead work on a plan to sterilize the strays in cooperation with animal welfare groups and a team from the federal environment ministry, said Syed Haq Nawaz, commissioner of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation.
"We're not going ahead with this poisoning. Not at all," Nawaz said.
Just the fact that they'd been planning it gives me the shivers. Without sterilization options, yeah, it might have been necessary--because of that sixty percent of the annual, global death rate from rabies--but still.
In New Delhi, one city councilor suggested shipping the country's strays to Korea, where dog meat is considered a delicacy.
*sigh* I'd say, hey, at least they're being eaten--except that, from shows/articles I've seen, they don't tend to treat their food dogs very humanely.
***
Argh. PMS--check. Bad weather--check. Multi-day migraine--check. Started, as usual, in the evening, which means it'll probably stick around till tomorrow morning. If I ever have kidney failure, I'm blaming my damn migraines for making me take Tylenol every four hours on the fucking dot. (But at least the Tylenol works, and I don't have to take any other weird prescription drugs.)
I think next school year I'm gonna try out for the tutoring program at the kidlet's school. Three days a week, a hundred dollars a day; I could do most anything other than math or in-depth science. It's part time, I so very know my way around everything English/grammar-related, and an extra three hundred bucks a week is nothing to sneeze at.