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Spaghetti with Bacon in the Kitchen
Maya notes this Taste of Home recipe for spaghetti with bacon:
Ingredients
8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
1/2 pound bacon strips, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
Minced fresh parsley, optional
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°. Cook spaghetti according to package directions for al dente.
In a large skillet, cook bacon and onion over medium heat until bacon is crisp, stirring occasionally; drain. Stir in tomatoes and tomato sauce; bring to a boil.
Drain spaghetti; transfer to a greased 11x7-in. baking dish. Spread sauce over top. Bake, covered, until bubbly, 40-45 minutes. If desired, sprinkle with parsley.
Following the initial discovery in July of an infected individual in Rockland County, evidence that polio is continuing to spread in New York state has now come to light. In addition to previous detection of the virus via wastewater testing in New York City and two suburban counties—Orange and Rockland—it has now been found farther away in Sullivan County, in samples taken in July and August.
A pattern of geographic spread is indicated. Rockland County lies immediately northwest of New York City, across the Hudson River. Orange County is adjacent to Rockland to the northwest and Sullivan to the northwest of Orange. Given the highly interconnected economy of the New York metropolitan region, which encompasses portions of the adjacent states of Connecticut and New Jersey, there is no reason to believe that the virus would not already be in those areas as well. However, wastewater testing so far has been extremely limited, making it impossible to comprehensively trace the spread of the polio virus.
Dr. Mary T. Bassett, New York State Health Commissioner, exemplified the official response to these developments in a guest essay published in the New York Times. She exclaimed that, “The case of a young adult paralyzed by polio in New York is not simply unexpected. It’s shocking.” No public health expert could be genuinely shocked.
It has long been recognized by those who have seriously considered the matter that, although it came close to achieving its goal, the underfunded and incompletely executed world campaign to eradicate polio, led by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, would not only fail in its stated mission but would open the door to the resurgence of this dread disease. This failure provides an object lesson regarding the necessary approach to combating all infectious diseases. A brief review will make this evident.
There are two basic types of polio vaccine—the inactivated (“killed”) virus vaccine, the Salk vaccine, first deployed in 1955, and the attenuated virus vaccine, the Sabin vaccine, released in 1961, which contains live virus that has been weakened so that, although still infectious, it does not normally cause disease. Both are highly effective in preventing disease in vaccinated individuals. However, each has advantages and disadvantages, which affected how and where they were employed.
Check back in four months when Joe Biden's finally aware of the problem.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Tuesday:
Spaghetti with Bacon in the Kitchen
Maya notes this Taste of Home recipe for spaghetti with bacon:
Ingredients
8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
1/2 pound bacon strips, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
Minced fresh parsley, optional
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°. Cook spaghetti according to package directions for al dente.
In a large skillet, cook bacon and onion over medium heat until bacon is crisp, stirring occasionally; drain. Stir in tomatoes and tomato sauce; bring to a boil.
Drain spaghetti; transfer to a greased 11x7-in. baking dish. Spread sauce over top. Bake, covered, until bubbly, 40-45 minutes. If desired, sprinkle with parsley.
Following the initial discovery in July of an infected individual in Rockland County, evidence that polio is continuing to spread in New York state has now come to light. In addition to previous detection of the virus via wastewater testing in New York City and two suburban counties—Orange and Rockland—it has now been found farther away in Sullivan County, in samples taken in July and August.
A pattern of geographic spread is indicated. Rockland County lies immediately northwest of New York City, across the Hudson River. Orange County is adjacent to Rockland to the northwest and Sullivan to the northwest of Orange. Given the highly interconnected economy of the New York metropolitan region, which encompasses portions of the adjacent states of Connecticut and New Jersey, there is no reason to believe that the virus would not already be in those areas as well. However, wastewater testing so far has been extremely limited, making it impossible to comprehensively trace the spread of the polio virus.
Dr. Mary T. Bassett, New York State Health Commissioner, exemplified the official response to these developments in a guest essay published in the New York Times. She exclaimed that, “The case of a young adult paralyzed by polio in New York is not simply unexpected. It’s shocking.” No public health expert could be genuinely shocked.
It has long been recognized by those who have seriously considered the matter that, although it came close to achieving its goal, the underfunded and incompletely executed world campaign to eradicate polio, led by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, would not only fail in its stated mission but would open the door to the resurgence of this dread disease. This failure provides an object lesson regarding the necessary approach to combating all infectious diseases. A brief review will make this evident.
There are two basic types of polio vaccine—the inactivated (“killed”) virus vaccine, the Salk vaccine, first deployed in 1955, and the attenuated virus vaccine, the Sabin vaccine, released in 1961, which contains live virus that has been weakened so that, although still infectious, it does not normally cause disease. Both are highly effective in preventing disease in vaccinated individuals. However, each has advantages and disadvantages, which affected how and where they were employed.
Check back in four months when Joe Biden's finally aware of the problem.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Tuesday: