Health

It was raining and homeless guy walking the St. Louis streets spies a nice empty and dry tank so he crawls in…gotcha! ST. LOUIS (AP) — A homeless man is expecting recover after passing out in a tank that continued residue of a hazardous chemical. [The Tank] had residue from a chemical called Toluene, which is used in paint and paint thinners. St. Louis’ plan to capture and do awesome experiments on the homeless was thwarted by the employees of Brenntag Co, who saw the man and called the authorities. [Read More]

If you’ve been suffering from the Swine Flu in St. Louis, today is your day because our apparently one horse town is finally getting some sweet sweet Swine Flu vaccine action! The first 100,000 batches of swine flu vaccine will be distributed in St. Louis County at the end of October, the county’s Health Director, Dr. Dolores Gunn, said Tuesday. Gunn said emergency personnel and health care providers would get the first doses, followed by pregnant women and people under the age of 24. [Read More]

Maybe it was a childhood reared on Mr. Rogers watching him show me how crayons are made, but I love seeing factory tours. In that vein we found a clip from KETC, channel 9, where they toured the St. Louis Tums factory! …its a little boring and “PBSy” in the beginning, but once the actual factory tour starts its pretty cool. Unless its just me that gets geeked up about stuff like this…if thats the case then we are showing this because its ironic lame, like all those “old” tshirts they sell at Wal-Mart, and proving that we are straight punk. [Read More]

According to KWMU, Jade, the 23-month old elephant at the St. Louis, has contracted the herp which is bad news for elephants since herpes is fatal to them…though somehow makes Paris Hilton stronger every day. Of course the question now is how does a baby elephant get herpes? Frankly the suspect list is endless. I mean we’re in St. Louis…there isn’t a guy in town that hasn’t gotten drunk and shacked up with a “baby elephant. [Read More]

First chess, now this. From OzarkFirst.com: The Gateway City is the most challenging place to live with asthma in the United States. That’s according to a study by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, which ranks St. Louis as the number one asthma capital. This unfavorable ranking is being blamed on the lack of public smoke-free laws, the higher than average pollen counts over the the previous year, and an increase in asthma deaths. [Read More]