Daily Rotten Archives October 26, 2001 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Spore illness sickens 400 in Mexico Infection Control Today | Submitted by: Useless Hundreds of Americans have gotten simultaneously ill after visiting the Calinda Beach Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico. "The fungus naturally lives in the soil and is found in bird and bat droppings. People can become exposed through inhalation of spores." Read article... Surgeons to grow Nose inside woman's Arm Guardian | Submitted by: Soylent "Mr Ayliffe aims to construct a nose under the skin on Ms Yussuff's forearm then graft it onto her face. Bone and cartilage will be taken from her ribs or skull. Prosthetics experts will sculpt this into the frame of a nose, which will be implanted into her forearm after the skin has been expanded. Once the frame has settled, it will be removed together with a vein and artery and grafted to the face." Read article... Cockfighting Crackdown Associated Press | Submitted by: thbb Cockfighting is legal in Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma, but other states are "cracking down" on the bloodsport. This article however is mostly anecdotal and sports little evidence of any "crackdown" to speak of, though there are some federal efforts to put a halt to interstate transport of cocks and cockfighting materials. This seems mostly a state matter. Read article... al Qaida has Nukes Times | Submitted by: Soylent From a reliable source, the Times of London: "Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network have acquired nuclear materials for possible use in their terrorism war against the West, intelligence sources have disclosed." Read article... CIA Anthraxed CNN | Submitted by: Soylent It was probably just a matter of time before CIA found itself on the elite list of U.S. government institutions to get spores in the mail: "Traces of anthrax have been found in a building at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, where incoming mail is sorted, U.S. officials tell CNN." Read article... Snorting Pig Frog halts construction Daytone Beach News-Journal | Submitted by: Soylent "A 4 1/2-inch endangered frog that sounds like a snorting pig is delaying a $51 million plan to build a state highway bypass -- even though the frog may not even exist in the area." Read article... The Prisoner's Right to gay porn This is London | Submitted by: Soylent If heterosexual pornography is never censored, why is gay porn being censored? One can argue that porno of any kind is inappropriate in a prison settings, but so is assbuggery -- but that doesn't mean it isn't going to happen. Prisoners who have a sexual outlet from pornography are less likely to turn their cellmates into pillowbiters. Serial murderer Dennis Nilsen is suing for the right to have his porn untampered, like other prisoners. Read article... Panic WFTV | Submitted by: Macki "The trooper is being decontaminated in the emergency room at ORMC. He had pulled over a black Nissan on the turnpike. The trooper gave the driver a ticket, the driver laughed and drove off. The trooper was overcome by some kind of fumes, could not breathe and became disoriented." [link dead] Read article... Don't Panic Cryptome | Submitted by: Macki The "Real" Deal about Nuclear, Bio, and Chem Attacks: Since the media has decided to scare everyone with predictions of chemical, biological, or nuclear warfare on our turf I decided to write a paper and keep things in their proper perspective. I am a retired military weapons, munitions, and training expert. Read article...