Florida recovers after huge power outage

3 million Florida residents lost power at 1 p.m. on Tuesday but go it back later that evening according to Florida Power and Light. However,there were still 20,000 people left without power. The power failure was said to be caused by a fire and equipment errors at a Miami power plant also because of the many storms. The mayor of Miami, Carlos Alvarez, said it was nothing criminal and that it was due to the weather conditions. The police and firefighters kept everything under control said one resident. The residents of Florida are more prepared for a power outage with backup generators and such. Luckly the loss of power only lasted hours but that is quite a lot of people without power. I think in some circumstances a power outage like that could be dangerous and I'm glad to see that the communities were able to remain calm and work together. I hope that in the future if anything like that happened to all of Florida and affected Jacksonville that we would be able to get it back as quickly and smoothly.

Pharmacists are forced to put out faster prescriptions but at what cost?

In Nashville a five-year-old boy is given the wrong prescription for two months. He was suppose to get medication for hand tremors and hyperactivity but instead got adult presecribed steriods. He started to show early signs of puberty and woyuld through uncontrolable tantrums.
It took two months for the pharmacy to notice the problem. The parents sued Walgreens and so have many other people with siminalr cases.
With Americans wanting everything fast, pharmacys are forced to put out hundreds of prescriptions daily. Pharmacists have little time for breaks and work long hours. This leaves room for many mistakes.
There have been new safety laws that have cut the error rates to 1%. Even so there is still dangerous errrors that can effect anyone with a sinus infection.
I know I would be furious if I ever recieved a different medication or the wrong dosage. A man from Jacksonville overdosed on Methadone after recieving a wrong dosage. Its errors like these that can have a huge effect on Americans. Its scary to think that we could die or have irraverrisable side-effects if a pharmacist slips up.
I can only hope that safety laws will stop these errors. Also, I thihk pharmacists should be able to focus on the prescription and not getting them to people faster.

Outbreak of new disease in Minnesota

Numerous factory workers at Quality Pork, a meat packing plant in Austin, Minn. have been affected by a painful syndrom. Each worker affected by the symptons suffered from fatigue, nerve damage, tingling in the legs and feet, and "heavy legs".

The disease can be treated but they are not sure if it will cure it. The workers have been given steriods but upon returning to work get sick again.

Doctors found in one man that his spinal cord was inflamed and his immune system was attacking his own nerves. After returning to work he became ill once again. Another worker did the same thing and finally a correlation was found.

Each person works near or at the "head table" where the hogs heads are cut off. The workers wear some protective attire but their arms are normally bare and they do not wear face shields.

Scientist found that an air compressor used at the "head table'' to extract the brains from hogs might have some signifigance. The compressor literally blows the brains out and onto nearby workers. It can enter through the eyes and mouth or even be breathed in.

Quality Pork immediatly stopped using the air compressor and found only two other plants in the country that did as well. Both plants stopped using them and one in Indiana found workers with similar symptons.

The disorder is being carefully investigated and there have not been any other cases so far. The plant still has the "head table" but hopefully without the air compressor no new diseases will be found. But their is still no answer as to exactly how people are beeing affected.

Plant owners should be more careful and have their workers protected. Its disgusting to have such a barbaric process as that, but, if their going to do it at least try and not get brain tissue on your bare arms and in your mouth.