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This video is almost unbelievable. Using a ‘re-generative’ powder made from pig’s bladders, a man has regrown the tip of a finger that he lost 3 years ago. A transcript of the video is here.

A Welsh View: Video: Man Re-Grows Finger

３年前に趣味の模型飛行機作成中プロペラで切断した指が、ある粉薬を使用することで新たに生えてきましたよと言うお話。

これはスゴイ。

In 1995, working together with nutrition specialists from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after a very strict diet, broke the record. The result: a 26 feet piece of crap…

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ミシガン大学の Ann Arbor が 26フィート (7.9m) もの長いモノを、1995年に排出していましたよと言うお話。
リンク先には、さらに詳細な写真あり(グロ注意)。

人間の小腸はおよそ 30フィート(9.14m)、大腸はおよそ 7フィート(2.13m) との事です。
お食事中の方は失礼いたしました。

It felt like a nasty sucker punch. Yet when he strained his eyes to the hard right, there was something that didn’t belong: the pewter-colored contour of a knife handle jutting from his skull.

Sgt. Dan Powers, stabbed in the head by an insurgent on the streets of East Baghdad, triggered a modern miracle of military medicine, logistics, technology and air power.

His survival relied on the Army’s top vascular neurosurgeon guiding Iraq-based U.S. military physicians via laptop, the Air Force’s third nonstop medical evacuation from Central Command to America, and the best physicians Bethesda National Naval Medical Center in Maryland could offer.

Soldier stabbed in the brain survives - Military Times Video
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東バグダッドで反乱分子にナイフを頭部に刺されたアメリカ陸軍のダン・パワーズ軍曹(39)が、医療チームの連携により無事助けられましたよと言うお話。

退院した彼は原隊への復帰を望んでいるとの事。

PHOENIX — A 14-year-old Lake Havasu boy has become the sixth victim to die nationwide this year of a microscopic organism that attacks the body through the nasal cavity, quickly eating its way to the brain.

Aaron Evans died Sept. 17 of Naegleria fowleri, an organism doctors said he probably picked up a week before while swimming in the balmy shallows of Lake Havasu.

According to the Centers For Disease Control, Naegleria infected 23 people from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials said they’ve noticed a spike in cases, with six Naegleria-related cases so far — all of them fatal.

Such attacks are extremely rare, though some health officials have put their communities on high alert, telling people to stay away from warm, standing water.

Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Arizona Boy - Local News Story - KPHO Phoenix

アリゾナ在住の少年が、Naegleria fowleri によって死亡したと言うお話。ハヴァス湖で泳いだ際に感染したと思われる。

感染すると、生存率3%の恐ろしいアメーバとの事。

When most people reach the grand old age of 100, they put the achievement down to healthy living, plenty of exercise and the odd tipple of sherry.

But Beatrice Langley has made it to the landmark birthday without a hint of a health drive, as she has been smoking for the past 92 years.

Since lighting her first cigarette at the age of just eight she has stubbed out an estimated 168,000 fags. And she has no intention of giving up any time soon.

She said: “I have smoked ever since infant school. I’ve never thought about quitting. “There were not all the health warnings like there are today when I started. It was the done thing.”

icSouthlondon - Life’s a drag for 100-year-old smoker Winnie

喫煙暦92年の女性が、めでたく100歳の誕生日を迎えたと言うお話。
すべての喫煙者に朗報ですね。

しかし、彼女は “I never inhaled.” (私は決して吸引しませんでした) とも言っています。
長生きしたければ、ふかすだけに留めておきましょう。