Dec 31, 2009

Polltards

Rassmussen has become a joke of a pollster in recent years, as he forms questions to further the Republican agenda. Today he released an epic result due to a moronic question.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day.
Really? So 58% of Americans think we should waterboard a guy WE ALREADY CAUGHT and is in prison. But, yeah, we should just jump ahead to the completely illegal action of waterboarding. Here's another question they should have asked:
Should we pop out the eyeballs of the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day?

Is an attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day any different that spitting on the baby Jesus?

Are you a fucking moron?
If you ask insane questions, you'll get crazy answers.

Dec 30, 2009

Next Up, Immigration Madness!

Now that we have ruined healthcare reform, we shall turn our attention to ruining immigration legislation. Let's not fix it well.

On that note, I just watched a right wing gentleman, Bob Dane of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, talk out of his anus on MSNBC. A couple of people have created an app for phones that guide Mexicans crossing the border to water, so they don't die in the desert. Bob thinks that's a bad idea. Why? Well because it's dangerous "to cross the border. They can be raped, murdered or robbed at a moment's notice."

So, don't give them water because they could be hurt by predators.

Got it.

Dec 28, 2009

How To Handle Terrorists

Some presidents just get it.

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.

American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an "art therapy rehabilitation program" and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.

Obama should open up an art farm in the Dakotas somewhere. Just get them painting and making sculptures of cocks and whatnot. I don't see how anything could go wrong.

Well, This is Upsetting

Nice vagina, though.

Dec 27, 2009

My Top 10 Films of 2009

Where the Wild Things Are

No, I don't have a valid reason. It was just my favorite film. I thought it was the kind of art house film we just don't see anymore. Loved it.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Anvil wasn't just one of the best movies of the year, it's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Story of a band that tasted the top but never made it. Great movie.

Moon

Fantastic science fiction, which is hard to come by these days.

The Hurt Locker

Awesome look at one job of one soldier in the Iraq War and how effects the mind.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Like Where The Wild Things Are, I don't know why I loved it so much. Just left me feeling warm and fuzzy. ( I might be enjoying these films more because I have a kid and I'm thinking about him seeing them someday)

Bruno

Laughed my ass off. He doesn't seem to miss.

The Informant!

This film took some heat but it's a brilliant look at a mental disorder, handled with such subtlety it was amazing. The voice over seems annoying but in the end I came to realize was perfect.

It Might Get Loud

Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page talking music and guitars. Really fantastic.

District 9

Easily could have been left off the list but I want to give credit to the filmmaker for creating something so different with such a small budget.

Thirst

Crazy. Asian. Vampire.

Honorable Mention:
Taken
Crank: High Voltage
Drag Me to Hell
Paranormal Activity
Zombieland

Bottom 10 Films of 2009

The Box

My God this movie is nearly indescribable. One of the most insane and ridiculous plots in the history of film. So bad it is enjoyable.

Yonkers Joe

Gangster with a mentally retarded son. Say no more.

The Stepfather (2009)

Please don't remake awesome movies and leave out the parts that make it a quality film. Thanks.

The Final Destination

I've quite enjoyed the previous films, but this one was amazingly sad. The dialogue made me want to blow my brains out, but I couldn't, because it wasn't my time.

Orphan

Screw you, worst twist of the year.

Star Trek

Yeah, yeah, I know. Everyone loved it. Maybe I should have gone in expecting something on the level of Transformers. But I didn't. And it was.

Knowing

Nicolas Cage. Nothing else needs to be said.

The Lovely Bones

Hey, somebody loves directing! The desperate attempts to make a palatable film about the rape and murder of a young girl turned this film into a long, horrible pile of crap. Pretty at times and that was the problem.

Inglourious Basterds

His dialogue now makes me want to murder someone. This movie should have been called "Table Talk" due to the constant never ending conversations at tables. By the time the shooting started, I wanted everyone in the scene to die.

The Hangover

Yeah. You are shocked. But one of my pet peeves is a great comedy idea squandered. It wasn't just taking a movie about some guys who had no memory of the night before and turning it into a search film, but every scene, every joke left me wanting more. This one made the list because of what it could have been, not what it was.

Dec 26, 2009

I'd Do The Same

If my face were this blurry, I'd try to blow up a plane, too. That's no way to go through life.

Dec 25, 2009

Merry Fucking Christmas

Yay!

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosed that they had received approval from their federal regulator to pay $42 million in Wall Street-style compensation packages to 12 top executives for 2009.

The compensation packages, including up to $6 million each to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's chief executives, come amid an ongoing public debate about lavish payments to executives at banks and other financial firms that have received taxpayer aid. But while many firms on Wall Street have repaid the assistance, there is no prospect that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will do so.

I dig Obama's style more and more each day.

Dec 24, 2009

Movies?

I've been watching screeners.

So far, Up in the Air was a little too cute for me. So on the nose and it became very irritating.

Just watched The Lovely Bones. I recommend committing suicide instead of watching a director jerk off film style. And if you do kill yourself, do it slowly, so you get the full effect of the film.

Next up, Crazy Heart.

I guess I have to start working on my top ten and bottom ten list, too.

Sometimes He Tells The Truth



Yes, indeed. You will stick up for those greedy insurance companies.

Me like how speak you.

Glenn Beck Has Awesome Advertisers



Get your motherfucking apocalypse seed on, bitch!

Dec 23, 2009

To The Clowns

Who think this is an awesome health insurance reform bill and want to know how we could improve this one. Here.
1. Add a robust public option open to all Americans.
2. Remove the rollback of a woman’s right to choose.
3. Repeal the anti-trust exemption for private insurance companies.
4. Add early Medicare buy-in.
5. Add a real employer mandate.
6. Fix the excise tax that would reduce the quality of many Americans’ insurance. This can be done by properly indexing it so that it forever remains only a tax on “Cadillac” plans.
7. Move up the start date of reform to as soon as possible. Three years is too long!
8. Increase the affordability tax credits to individuals.
9. Expand Medicaid to 150% of FPL.
10. Reduce the maximum annual out-of-pocket limit to 5% of income.
11. Move up state waiver for innovation to 2014 and add ERISA waiver. The state waiver for innovation is a good idea, but having it start in 2017 creates a bureaucratic nightmare of putting in place one reform only to replace it a few years later. We need to fix our system now, not have states start working toward a real solution a decade from now.
12. Give states that set up “basic health programs” 100% of the money, and allow them to use the program for people above 200% of FPL.
13. Allow for drug re-importation so Americans can get cheaper drugs from Canada or Europe.
14. Give Medicare the power to directly negotiate for lower drug prices.
15. Give the government the power to negotiate for lower drug prices on behalf of all Americans (like every other industrialized country does to bring down pharmaceutical prices).
16. Create a national exchange with a strong regulation enforcer instead of state-based exchanges with weak local insurance commissioners.
17. Force all non-HMO insurance plans on the exchange (or at least on the new OPM exchange) to work with the exchange commissioners to collectively negotiate a single provider reimbursement rate for all insurance plans (as it is in Switzerland, Belgium, and The Netherlands.)
18. Add truly strong risk adjustment mechanisms to force competition based on quality instead of trying to dump sick customers (as is done in The Netherlands).
19. Increase the actuarial value of the minimum qualified plans offered on the exchange and base subsidies on the gold level (80% actuarial value) instead of silver level plan (70% actuarial value).
20. Force all insurance companies on the exchange to offer at least one precisely designed high quality insurance plan. This will allow true apple-to-apple comparisons, and make it harder for insurance companies to game the system.
21. Greatly reduce the amount of plan design leeway given to insurance companies to reduce their ability to game the system.
22. Make it illegal to sell basic health insurance for profit, like in almost every first-world country on Earth.
23. At the least, allow only non-profit insurance plans to take part in the new exchanges (or OPM exchange).
24. Reduce the community rating based on age to at most a 1:2 ratio with age rating bands. (one price for all 18-30 year olds, one price for 30-45 year olds, and one price for all 45-64 year olds).
25. Make minimum medical loss ratio 92%. (Try to do this in way to get around the CBO.)
26. At the very least, remove the MLR loophole for the individual market.
27. Allow state and local governments to apply for grants from the CO-OP program.
28. Allow the co-ops to sell insurance to anyone, not just the small group and individual markets.
29. Allow undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance with their own money on the new exchange.
30. Make all legal immigrants eligible for all public health care programs right away, instead of creating a five year wait.
31. Eliminate direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription medication.
32. Provide enough money to give every American access to a community health care center.
33. Follow the FTC recommendations and create a real pathway for biosimilars to create generic forms of the most expensive medications in this country.
34. Create a Government-run HMO option modeled on the VA system.
35. Scrap the whole bill and replace it with a single payer “Medicare-for-all” system.

And more:

1. Extend everyone’s COBRA coverage until the reform kicks in (like in the House bill).
2. Better define the term “medical loss ratio” in the bill to prevent insurers from gaming the regulation.
3. Give the IRS power and duty to enforce insurance companies’ MLR regulation.
4. Remove the six-month wait for the temporary high-risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions. If you can’t get affordable health insurance, it is immoral that the bill makes you go uninsured for six months before you get care.
5. Set up the exchange and all corresponding regulations for small business as soon as possible (a few months). They delayed the exchange because the regulations in the individual market require the expensive affordability tax credits. The small business market will not get expensive affordability tax credits, so there is no reason not to start the exchange just for the small group market as soon as possible.
6. Let insurers in the new exchange use a reimbursement rate based on Medicare plus some percent. (This idea from Jacob Hacker would have similar cost controlling effects as my previous suggestion of having the exchange commissioner force all insurers using PPO’s to negotiate one standard provider reimbursement rate.)
7. Use the OPM exchange to replicate something similar to the Swiss or German system. (Only allow only new CO-OP plans to take part. Mandate a 93% MLR, precisely define benefit packages, and have them collectively pool their negotiating power with providers and manufacturers. Make all co-ops on the OPM exchange share provider networks, reimbursement rates, and forms for PPOs plans or out-of-network charges. Create a robust internal risk adjuster and give all plans in the OPM exchange the power to reimburse at Medicare rates plus 10% for the first several years while the co-ops and OPM exchange gets off the ground.
8. Allow people below 190% of FPL, but who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, to buy in to the program.
9. At least allow people who were on Medicaid but have incomes that increase just slightly above the Medicaid qualification cut off to “buy in” to Medicaid so that they can keep a seamless coverage despite minor fluctuations in income.
10. Fully Federalize the whole Medicaid program.
11. Provide serious special benefits to insurance plans that score very high on precisely defined sets of metrics (MLR, cost effectiveness, consumer reviews, survival rates, speed of claim reimbursement, easy of appeal process, customer retention, etc.)
12. Encourage states and local governments to find a way to merge their state employer insurance exchanges with the new exchange as long as it can be done in a way that does not reduce the quality or increase the cost of coverage for state employees.
13. Encourage community health care centers to work together to create new fully integrated, cost-effective health care plans to cover individuals in Medicaid, the new “basic health program,” or on the new exchange. (like the Community Health Network of Connecticut)
14. Have all insurance plans that provide coverage for young children have zero cost sharing for the health care of the child.
15. At least make all health insurance plans covering children have extremely low co-pays, deductibles, and out-of-pocket limits for the coverage of the child.
16. Have all young children in the country without insurance coverage, regardless of legal status, automatically enrolled in some form low out-of-pocket public health care program. (No child on US soil or anywhere else on Earth should ever die due to lack of access basic affordable health care.)

Good Luck With That 2012 Campaign, Champ

Here's the commercial you'll be facing.

A Powerful Reason to Vote for Republicans in 2010

Newt says Michelle Bachmann will be Chairwoman of a Committee



Word. She should handle the Witchcraft and Warlock Committee. Or Dragon Prevention.

Finally, Someone Speaks For The Jersey Shore Kids



Epic. Next up, the fight to stop taxing arm pit waxing.

Dec 20, 2009

How Will They Get Around It?

Oh, Congress and their precious regulations, which are made for companies to find holes. Big gaping holes.

Possibly coming soon to a doctor's office near you: a little something extra on your bill, not covered by insurance -- a nifty number known as a "facility fee." What is it exactly? Here's a fun experiment: Ask five medical professionals. Most likely, you will get a variety of explanations, all guaranteed to make you respond, "Huh?"

"Healthcare billing is complex enough without throwing another factor into the mix," writes the website FierceHealthFinance. "Increasingly, however, it seems that consumers are being caught off guard by a new bill -- a 'facility fee' for visiting doctors based in a hospital-owned building -- which these days they're usually expected to pay on their own."

I definitely was caught off guard when I checked in to see a specialist in a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center building in Los Angeles and was told to pay a $75 facility fee. When I asked what that meant, the receptionist explained that this was a fee being levied to cover the wear-and-tear I would inflict on the office.

Dec 19, 2009

Mmmm, Corporatism

The health care bill is one of the most flagrant advancements of corporatism yet, as it bizarrely forces millions of people to buy extremely inadequate products from the private health insurance industry -- regardless of whether they want it or, worse, whether they can afford it (even with some subsidies). In other words, it uses the power of government, the force of law, to give the greatest gift imaginable to this industry -- tens of millions of coerced customers, many of whom will be truly burdened by having to turn their money over to these corporations -- and is thus a truly extreme advancement of this corporatist model.
Sweet.

Worse than anything Bush did economically? Absolutely.

FAIL

Wendell Potter, former CIGNA executive and reform activist, said the insurance industry got "every single thing they wanted" in the Senate bill.

"There's no individual mandate, no public option. There's also three words, 'benefit design flexibility' in Senate bill – that means the freedom to design plans that will pass more and more of us into ranks of the underinsured - and charge up to 22% of income if someone gets sick," he said.

Everyone okay with paying 22% of your income if you become ill?

We reformed the shit out of this motherfucker.

Your Democratic Majority

1. The Feds will require you to purchase insurance

2. States may ban abortions for all plans in the exchange, so women are not only stripped of current rights but left completely unprotected.

So, you have to buy it, but it legally won't do everything you may need.

For a legal procedure.

Win!

Dec 17, 2009

Congrats Ben Bernanke!

Time's Man of The Year!



And he shed his human skin for the picture!

Bestest Local Government Fella Nominee

Oh, sweet Jesus.

Mecklenburg County commissioner Bill James is not so good at being subtle.
The incident occurred Tuesday during a meeting in which a majority of commissioners agreed to offer domestic-partner benefits to county workers in same-sex relationships starting in 2011.

Leake had just finished speaking about her personal connection to the debate, including mentioning her son's 1993 death from AIDS.

Toward the end of an emotional, two-hour debate on the topic, James leaned over to commissioner Vilma Leake and asked: "Your son was a homo, really?"
We actually called him a cockgobbler, but yes. Thank you for your concern.

I'm always amazed at these fucks who live surrounded completely by douchebags, so when they enter the world of humans the worst shit just spills from their idiot holes without a thought about it being inappropriate. Some people call those places churches.

Finally, A Voice of Reason

When chaos abounds, one needs to look no further than Chuck Norris for sanity.
Washington is up to its old political shell game again, this time in an unprecedented way.
Word. Lay it out, kick man.
First, last Monday the Senate rejected the health care reform bill amendment introduced by Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that would have banned federal funds from providing for abortion.
Ah shit.
Then, on Thursday, the House of Representatives rushed the clandestine approval of an overinflated $1 trillion omnibus bill, which includes 5,224 earmarks -- costing about $3.9 billion -- and an underhanded provision that would overturn a long-standing budget ban in the District of Columbia (whose budget is overseen by Congress) for federally funding abortions.
Motherfucker.
Then, after the Democratic-controlled Senate cleared a procedural vote on Saturday needed to end a Republican filibuster, in yet another near-secret Sunday afternoon session, the Senate passed the omnibus bill and the provision for Washington, D.C. Tragically, the bill also would appropriate $648.5 million for "international family planning" funding (an increase of $103 million over 2009) and would give funding for Planned Parenthood and the United Nations Population Fund, both of which have pro-abortion agendas.
Son of a bitch.
In short, while President Obama was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, the Democrats in Congress drove a sword through the womb of the unborn.
Um. Please don't come to my Christmas party.
Lastly, as we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy?
He would have been Jesus the Dead Fetus, yo. Shit would have been different. Would have been a super uncomfortable resurrection. The crucifixion would not have been a tea party, either. You ever try to nail a fetus to a cross? Shit is fucked up.

Dec 16, 2009

Dec 15, 2009

Glenn Beck's Mouth Says Something Horrible

He's an expert on race, obviously.

CALLER: I notice you reference the founding fathers a lot, and to me it’s kind of offensive because most of those guys were slave owners, the Constitution that they wrote up — they didn’t even recognize my people as even human. [...]

BECK: That is a common misconception. …

Uh oh. This really isn't going to end well.

BECK: Do you know who wanted slaves to be counted as a full person? … Slave owners. … The reason why they wanted that is because of the balance of power. The South could control the numbers in Congress. Their representation would go through the roof. … That’s why, in the Constitution, African-Americans were deemed three-fifths people, because the Founders wanted to end slavery and they knew if the South could count slaves as full individuals you would never get the control to be able to abolish it.


Totally. That's why the Founding Fathers did that when they wrote The Constitution 100 years before the south - north battle over slavery. Good point.

Moron.

Dec 14, 2009

Firefox is Being An Asshole

Sorry, having trouble with my browser, which has decided to barely function.

Dec 13, 2009

Why Can't We Punch Our Presidents?

Some dude punched Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in the face today at a rally.



I'm going to go ahead and say that was not the best rally for Silvio Berlusconi.

Anyway, nicely done Italy.

Dec 11, 2009

So Wrong But So Right

Glenn Beck's The Christmas Sweater

Wow. Just fucking wow. I'll be doing a full review on comedyfilmnerds.com later. For now, some tasty moments of horror.

Aside from causing two audience members in front of us to move and the two to my right to leave the theater completely, it was a horrible theater experience. As everyone knows, Glenn Beck is insane and pathetic. This film is a two hour twenty minute adventure into the basic stupidity that changed Glenn's live forever. He just tells it through the voice of a 12-year-old boy who is mad about not getting a bike, and then his mom dies, so he runs off and there's a storm and an old hobo helps him and then he makes it through the storm and wakes up to find out it was all a dream.

So fucking stupid. A shockingly simplistic allegory that makes one wish no one had ever thought up allegories in the first place. We may have seen the death of the extended metaphor last night.

The life changing moment is summed up in one amazing sentence: "Don't be afraid of the storm Eddie, be afraid of the corn." Bam. There it is. Go ahead and live your life now.

There are so many tears it is insane. There is so much sweating I'm surprised no one called a medic. Glenn's real life "storm" was alcoholism. I'm not sure what his corn was.

This is all from last year's The Christmas Sweater show - which we pull out of to reveal present day Glenn on another stage, surrounded by fans. Then Glenn takes us on a trip into Glenn Oprah Beck. In present day Glennland we get to meet people who have also walked through storms. Most of them appear to have eaten their way through, actually.

More tears.

Hints of the Apocalypse. (The big storm)

Insufferable nonsense.

In the end, I feel like I saved those people I drove from the theater.

Why The Health Care Bill Is Awful

Robert Reich explains the failure.

But we still end up with a system that's based on private insurers that have no incentive whatsoever to control their costs or the costs of pharmaceutical companies and medical providers. If you think the federal employee benefit plan is an answer to this, think again. Its premiums increased nearly 9 percent this year. And if you think an expanded Medicare is the answer, you're smoking medical marijuana. The Senate bill allows an independent commission to hold back Medicare costs only if Medicare spending is rising faster than total health spending. So if health spending is soaring because private insurers have no incentive to control it, we're all out of luck. Medicare explodes as well.

A system based on private insurers won't control costs because private insurers barely compete against each other..... In light of all this, you'd think the insurance industry would be subject to the antitrust laws.... But no. Remarkably, the Senate bill still keeps Big Insurance safe from competition by preserving its privileged exemption from the antitrust laws.


It's amazing that they actually believe they will get away with this shit. The Democratic base will be ruined. No one will vote except conservatives in the next election. It will be a massacre.

Dec 10, 2009

Where Was I Tonight?




You bet your sweet ass. More on this gem tomorrow.

My behavior only caused two people to leave the theater.

Dec 9, 2009

Great, A Fucking Alien Wormhole

This is the last thing we need right now.



This shit happened in Norway. Scientists have no explanation. I do. It's super cold in Norway and aliens like cold. No one ever talks about that. They fucking love chilly weather.

So, prepare to die.

It's over.

Dec 8, 2009

How To Deal With Them


Look how defeated the poor bastard is.

Dec 7, 2009

This About Sums it Up

I agree - except for the Nader/McKinney part.

I am not disappointed in Obama. I don’t feel betrayed. I don’t wonder when he is going to be Obama. I did not vote for the man. I vote socialist, which in my case meant Ralph Nader, but could have meant Cynthia McKinney. How can an organization with the oxymoronic title Progressives for Obama even exist? [..] I don’t dislike Obama—I would much rather listen to him than his smug and venal predecessor—though I expected nothing but a continuation of the corporate rape of the country. And that is what he has delivered.

Bingo. When the health care "Reform" is finished, he will have done more damage to the country than Bush. It's that bad of a bill.

Fox News Tells It Like It Is



Can't have more mother fucking poor babies running around in this shit!

Come on government!

Dec 4, 2009

I Have a Cold

So, I give you sharks with people teeth for your viewing pleasure.

Dec 2, 2009

If You Don't Pass, You Will Be Shot In The Face

What to do when you have created one of the most vial organizations on Earth but have now been ousted?

Blackwater USA into one of the world's most respected and reviled defense contractors will no longer be involved in the company's operations.

A spokeswoman for the company, now called Xe (zee), said Wednesday that Erik Prince will relinquish involvement in its day-to-day operations and give up some of his ownership rights. Prince had appointed a new president and chief operating officer in a management shake-up earlier this year.

Aw. So sad.

Prince has become a scapegoat for some of the Bush administration’s misadventures in Iraq. … Congressmen and lawyers, human-rights groups and pundits, have described Prince as a war profiteer, one who has assembled a rogue fighting force capable of toppling governments. … “I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions. … But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus. … I’m an easy target.”


Shocking. I've never heard of such a thing.

Prince said he is instead “going to teach high school.” “History and economics,” he said. “I may even coach wrestling.”

Wrestling to the death.

"Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too."

How dare you.

BYE!

Bestest Candidate Nominee!


When looking for a candidate who bests represents my interests, I look for three things: Has he fucked the current president? Has he done blow with the current president? Has he spent over a decade in prison? I finally have my guy.

Larry Sinclair, the man who claimed that he "took drugs [and] had homo sex with Obama" is now running for Congress in Florida’s 24th district. His slogan: "I have served my time, now it's time I serve my Country."

Greatest campaign slogan ever? Yes. I might have gone with, "I've nailed the president, now it's time to nail Iran," but his is better.
Sinclair has been convicted of larceny, theft, check forging and credit card fraud and has served over 16 years in prison in Florida and Colorada where he was disciplined 97 times for infractions including assault, threats, drug possession, intimidation, and verbal abuse.

It's called "experience."

“It is what it is,” said a Sinclair spokesman regarding his criminal past.

He just got all Buddhist on your ass.

Dec 1, 2009

Exciting Salmonella News!

Salmonella is now resistant to antibiotics and can be passed from person to person!

While most salmonella bacteria cause diarrhea and are rarely fatal, this one causes death in one of four cases among children and vulnerable adults in some African regions, the researchers said. Many of its victims have been weakened by the AIDS virus, anemia malaria or malnutrition.

Salmonella normally circulates in animals and reaches humans via food poisoning.

But after sequencing the bacterial DNA found in about 50 Africans with severe infections, the researchers said the ST313 strain appeared to be mutating to circulate in humans independently of animals, as, for example, drug-resistant staph infections now do.


Good luck to our new friend.