View across the Outer Harbour of Stornoway

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Tuesday 17 February

Bright morning, after the mist and drizzle of the early hours cleared. Temperature has inched up to 11C, so we're having a pretty mild day.

Couple of items in the news today, which caught my eye. A haemophiliac patient has died suffering from variant-Creutzfeldt-Jacobs Disease (the human version of mad-cow disease), although he did not have any symptoms. He was the first case to emerge as a result of being given contaminated blood products.

There is a continuing row in the Western Isles about the closure of schools and the role of councillors. A local website carries calls for resignations of some of them - the closure plans were torpedoed by the Scottish Government as being incompetent.

Just as I close this post, the sun has come out.

2 comments:

  1. A doctor I worked with when I was very young was first said to have dementia(long after I worked with him) and then it was determined to be mad cow disease. His life was so alien & threatening to him for so long, not knowing what it was. I am sorry for this man's passing, but he was better off without the symptoms. ~Mary

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  2. Never knew people could get mad cow. What a shame. Enjoy your sun!!

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