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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Gregory Gadow" |
| Date: |
14 May 2004 02:21:01 PM |
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Semi OT: God works in mysterious ways |
.... just look at the cicada. But please, warn your children first.
Pediatrician Warns Parents About Cicadas
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First there was the girl who fell off her bike
fleeing a flying cicada. Then a boy trying to swat a cicada out of the
air with a baseball bat instead hit his friend in the nose.
The final straw came when another child hurt his hand trying to squish a
cicada under a car's tires. Dr. Ray Baker of Cincinnati Children's
Hospital was convinced -- cicadas can be a safety hazard to children.
Starting this week and lasting into June, billions and possibly even
trillions of cicadas will emerge across much of the eastern half of the
United States.
The thumb-sized insects are harmless, but they are large, noisy and
clumsy. They climb out of their underground homes en masse after 17
years of slow development with only one goal in mind -- finding a mate.
The last time this happened at such a scale was in 1987, and Baker was
working in the emergency room of Cincinnati Children's.
"We just noticed when this all started, children were coming in and
having injuries related to cicadas," Baker said in a telephone
interview.
"After the third or fourth one we decided to keep a list."
They noted 12 injuries that were fairly significant, Baker said. He
wrote a letter to the journal Pediatrics afterward, outlining the cases.
"They were all related to kids trying to get away from what they
perceived as cicadas flying at them, or the children were trying to kill
them," Baker said.
The article continues at
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040514/hl_nm/health_cicadas_dc
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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