Rethinking cleaning your grill with a wire brush.

Daily Mail: Why you should NEVER clean your grill with a wire brush: Doctor reveals 'life-saving' tip she learned from handling BAFFLING case of a four-year-old boy with mystery illness.

A pediatric emergency doctor has warned about the dangers of wire grill brushes after a four-year-old boy presented a mysterious illness when he ingested metal pieces from one.
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Most recently, the doctor shared a cautionary tale in a viral video, which garnered over 34.1 million views, about 'one of the most interesting cases' she has ever encountered involving a young boy who symptoms began with ear pain following a backyard barbeque. 

Despite many tests, doctors were unable to find the reasoning behind the child's symptoms and sent him off. But, when the four-year-old boy became more ill, Dr. [Meghan] Martin stepped in and discovered the culprit was a brush used to clean your grill and warned others about the 'lesson that could save your life.'
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... after the tests came back, doctors had found the cause.

'We got our answer on the CAT scan. He had about a two centimeter metal wire that was lodged in the peritonsillar on the right and he'd started to develop an abscess around it,' she explained.

The doctor explained that the boy at[e] a hamburger at the barbecue and had swallowed metal wires from a grill brush that was lodged in the meat. 

Luckily, surgeons were able to remove the wire and drain the abscess, and the young boy's pain 'was totally resolved.'

Now, the doctor is making it her mission to warn others about the dangers of metal wire grill brushes.
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'Do not use grill brushes with metal wires,' she said, explaining that the wires can become stuck in the soft tissues of the throat and can even cause bowel obstructions if accidentally swallowed.

Although incidents with metal wire brushes are rare, they have become exceedingly more common in recent years.
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Instead of using a wire grill brush, experts recommend opting for non-wire brush, or a cleaning block, stone, or grill floss to keep your grill clean and avoid any trips to the emergency room.

World News

The Independent: Ten UN Peacekeepers killed in Mali.

Jihadists have killed 10 UN peacekeepers and wounded at least 25 in northern Mali.

All of the peacekeepers killed in the assault on their camp in Aguelhoc were from Chad.

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SMH: "Elite Hacker" of dark web drugs arrested.

[Arrested was] Dov Tenenboim, a self-described "elite hacker" who allegedly masterminded a scheme to import a huge volume of drugs from the dark web worth millions of dollars to addresses across Sydney's eastern suburbs.

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Manchester Evening News: Under-cooked chicken burgers served to school children.

Parents at a secondary school in Wythenshawe have been told to 'seek medical advice' if their child falls ill after concerns about a batch of chicken burgers.
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The principal confirmed there were concerns about the chicken being undercooked, after a parent [said] her daughter was served pink meat.

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Sacramento Bee: Sacramento DA seeks to ban items used during protests.

The measure, recommended by Deputy Chief of Police Dave Peletta, would ban knives, firearms, glass bottles, baseball bats, projectile launchers, pepper spray, bricks, rocks, pieces of asphalt, and other items.

So...currently these items are allowed?
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The Herald: Here comes the meat tax. Global red meat revolution.

...hailed by vegans - and feared by farmers...
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[Barbara Bolton, co-founder and volunteer with Go Vegan Scotland said], "They should shift subsidies away from meat, dairy and eggs, tax those products, and use the funds to support plant-based agriculture[.]"

A Socialist concept designed for taxing meat and dairy and redistributing that money for the vegans. Yeah...When they take the steak and bacon from my cold, dead hands.
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Zimbabwe News: Man ridiculed, called a "sissy" for carrying baby on his back.

A majority of people, in the country’s patriarchal society, say the man is a “sissy” and should not stand up when men are being counted.
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“I was touched by the love displayed in this video, and the gesture of responsibility and care demonstrated by this father carrying his baby; despite the abuse he received,” [posted a Facebook user].
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The boos continued unabated on social media. “This guy is now a full-time woman in UK I think . . . "].

Man carrying baby on back; called "sissy." Image: Zimbabwe News

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Saudi Gazette: Uniform code for women on the job.

...providing women with suitable areas and distances to practice their work or separate counters, ensuring privacy and independence in the women’s sections of office working environments not assigned to receive customers, not employing women in cleaning facilities or rooms and carrying bags in relation to the tourist accommodation sector, except those for women only.

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The Belize Guardian: The cost of gasoline drops...to under ten dollars a gallon. 

The Ministry of Finance is pleased to announce that at midnight on January 17th, the price for premium gasoline will decrease by a further 52 cents, from $10.47 down to $9.95 per gallon.

Change your diet for the good of the planet.

And here we go again. Shanghai Daily: Diet to save you and the planet.

If the world followed the “Planetary Health” diet, the researchers said, more than 11 million premature deaths could be prevented each year, while greenhouse gas emissions would be cut and more land, water and biodiversity would be preserved.
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...global average consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar should be cut by 50 percent, while consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes should double.

Good luck with that global diet plan. Let us know when Al Gore, Junior, Xi Jinping, leaders of the EU and all the other Eastern countries and other Alarmists embrace the diet for a sustained period of time, setting an example.

BTW - the "changing your diet for the good of the planet and to save you" propaganda...You know they don't really GAF about you, right? They're just being polite. For now.

Meanwhile...(and grab two bags of Reese's Peanut Butter cups and other sugary good stuff)...

Image: Golb Salt