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The last day of 2011 slips by like many of the others this December. I laid down for a nap and set the timer for 30 minutes, but did not feel like budging and ended up sleeping almost two hours.
Given the ongoing sinusitis, I've tried nasal irrigation but it seemed to have no effect. I've just now read why one should use sterilized water and i'm going to try not to think about brain eating amoebas for a bit. I also read a bit about sinusitis and was morbidly fascinated to see that due to the sinuses proximity to the brain, there's "a risk" of a sinus infection moving to the brain. I wonder how that risk compares to brain eating amoebas.
I've no idea what the numbers are, but i pause for a moment to wonder if we ought to be declaring a war on Naegleria fowleri. Well, it seems that the brain eating amoeba causes roughly 30 deaths in the US per decade.
OK, maybe it should be a war on distracted driving.
Am i still thinking about brain eating amoebas? Of course, i am.
We did succeed in grocery shopping. I should go cook beets for our salad tonight as we have a echo of Christmas dinner tonight, since we didn't really cook a festive meal last week.
Given the ongoing sinusitis, I've tried nasal irrigation but it seemed to have no effect. I've just now read why one should use sterilized water and i'm going to try not to think about brain eating amoebas for a bit. I also read a bit about sinusitis and was morbidly fascinated to see that due to the sinuses proximity to the brain, there's "a risk" of a sinus infection moving to the brain. I wonder how that risk compares to brain eating amoebas.
I've no idea what the numbers are, but i pause for a moment to wonder if we ought to be declaring a war on Naegleria fowleri. Well, it seems that the brain eating amoeba causes roughly 30 deaths in the US per decade.
Abstract
Objective: To estimate the relative number of deaths in member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from international terrorism and road crashes.
Methods: Data on deaths from international terrorism (US State Department database) were collated (1994–2003) and compared to the road injury deaths (year 2000 and 2001 data) from the OECD International Road Transport Accident Database.
Results: In the 29 OECD countries for which comparable data were available, the annual average death rate from road injury was approximately 390 times that from international terrorism. The ratio of annual road to international terrorism deaths (averaged over 10 years) was lowest for the United States at 142 times. In 2001, road crash deaths in the US were equal to those from a September 11 attack every 26 days.
Conclusions: There is a large difference in the magnitude of these two causes of deaths from injury. Policy makers need to be aware of this when allocating resources to preventing these two avoidable causes of mortality.
http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/11/6/332.abstract
OK, maybe it should be a war on distracted driving.
Am i still thinking about brain eating amoebas? Of course, i am.
We did succeed in grocery shopping. I should go cook beets for our salad tonight as we have a echo of Christmas dinner tonight, since we didn't really cook a festive meal last week.
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