The Center for Disease Control reports that each year 4.7 million Americans are victims of dog bite attacks. Attacking dogs may puncture a victim’s skin, requiring stitches and leading to risk of infection. Dog bite incidents also cause psychological stress that usually creates fear in the victim of strange dogs…
Last month The City sued the landlord of a Tenderloin apartment building for forcing tenants to live in substandard conditions such as bedbugs and with drug-dealing gang members keeping them “like prisoners in their own homes.” The public nuisance lawsuit claims the owner of a six-story, 88-unit apartment building at…
Social status, gender, relegious creed, and race matter not to bedbugs. Did you know there are exterminator units out there dedicated to the eradication of bedbugs? Often they are called to five star hotels, hostels, shelters, low income hotels, and camps. It can cost between $500 to $750 to exterminate…
According to ABC World News, at least five states are seeking assistance from the Department of Defense for help with the growing presence of bedbugs in this country, and Ohio just asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for special permission to use a banned pesticide to eradicate the growing problem…
A man washing windows at a Huntington Beach medical office building was electrocuted this morning when he accidentally touched over power lines with a metal pole, according to the LATimes. The man was using a brush on a long extension pole with a water hose attachment to clean the windows…
According to sfexaminer.com, a handful pipeline accidents across the country–similar in scale to the one in San Bruno last September that killed eight people–has raised safety concerns among federal investigators. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accidents, all of which indicate possible widespread safety problems in the pipeline…
It is ironic-and appalling– that a runner collapsed and died near the finish line of the San Francisco Half Marathon sponsored by a health care provider-Kaiser Permanante-last weekend. According to the SFGate.com, bystanders and race participants desperately tried to revive him as they waited 20 minutes for the paramedics to…
Recently, the Environmental Working Group analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States and found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a commonly used, until the early 1990s, in some industries, such as in chrome plating and the manufacturing of plastics and dyes, and it has the ability…
Muni has received the approval rating in almost a decade, according to the SF Examiner. Thousands of riders take Muni each day, and during the past year, they have been paying more and more while the agency has tried to fix its deficit. The price for a monthly pass has…
Monday of this week, a Carnival Splendor cruise ship with nearly 4500 passengers, 52 of whom were senior citizens, became stranded off Mexico’s Pacific Coast. A fire in the engine room caused the ship to lose power Monday morning, only one day after it left port in Long Beach for…