I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
European and Japanese researchers have discovered a strain of gonorrhoea that is immune to all available antibiotics.
The Los Angeles Times reports the new strain, dubbed H041, has been found in only a handful of people. However, scientists write in a paper abstract released at the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research:
“This is a large public health problem and the era of untreatable gonorrhea may now have been initiated.”
The researches say the strain of bacteria is resistant to all the cephalosporins, a type of antibiotic and the last which proved effective. Making this news more chilling, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reports there has been a growing incidence of gonorrhea which requires far higher doses of cephalosporins to conquer. The majority of those hard to treat cases were found in Hawaii and California and mostly in the men who have sex with men community.
The more troubling aspect of the report? Scientists say that when H041 is grown with gonorrhea bacteria that does not have the cephalosporin resistance, the mutation was quickly shared with the non-resistant bacteria.
Michigan Department of Community Health records show that in 2010 the state saw 13,919 cases of the sexually transmitted bacterial infection.
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