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Little girl shot in the throat by brother, then goes to school with a bandage

A nine-year-old girl was 'accidentally' shot by her brother but kept it quiet until the following day when a teacher at her school realised what had happened.
The two children had been left home alone in Wisconsin, when they heard a dog barking and thought someone was trying to break into their home. They went to get a 9mm handgun from a room in the house, Green Bay police said.
The girl’s older brother, who is aged between 11 and 12, shot her just below the throat - apparently by mistake - while handling the gun, but then tried to hide the wound by bandaging it while their father was still out at work.

The children’s mother does not live at the home, police said.
Their father drove them to school on Friday morning seemingly unaware of what had happened, but a teacher noticed the girl was feeling unwell and called an ambulance and the police.

The girl told the teacher at Elmore Elementary 'my brother shot me last night’, said Jim Runge, of Green Bay Police Department.
‘The teacher felt something was wrong, could see something was not right with the girl (and) started questioning her. (She) initially denied (and) said she was fine,’ he added.

It was the two kids, they heard noise outside, heard the dog barking, so the girl knew where the gun was in dad's room, went and got it.

‘At some point she either handed it to her brother or he grabbed it and then a shot (went) off and struck her in the chest, just below the throat. And it exited her back, just behind the shoulder.
‘I've seen the pictures of the wound and to me it's just amazing that this little girl is going to go home tomorrow or the next day.'
The bullet, which exited through her shoulder, did not hit any of her vital organs and she did not require surgery.
The girl is expected to leave hospital in the next few days.
Amanda Brooker, of Green Bay Area Public School District, said: ‘A fourth-grader arrived at school (and) was not looking well. (The) teacher noticed, brought her down to the main office (and) realised she was seriously injured.’
Child Protective Services will help police in the investigation, who must decide whether to charge the father with any offences, reported television station WLUK FOX 11.
No charges had been made in connection with the incident as of Friday evening.

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Badass Lego Gun Rampage

SO rad. http://www.todaysbigthing.com/technology/2011/01/27

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DEA Agent Is Suing Government For Allegedly Releasing Video Of Him Shooting Himself In The Foot

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NYC mayor conducts gun-sale sting in Arizona

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Comic Book Mafia #42: Enter the Colorist

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(Video) Inside The Detroit Police Station Shooting!!!!!

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Article: Eliminating Taxpayer Subsidies for Arms Sales

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Swine flu survivors developed super flu antibodies

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A study of antibodies from people infected with H1N1 swine flu adds proof that scientists are closing in on a "universal" flu shot that could neutralize many types of flu strains, including H1N1 swine flu and H5N1 bird flu, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said people who were infected in the H1N1 pandemic developed an unusual immune response, making antibodies that could protect them from all the seasonal H1N1 flu strains from the last decade, the deadly "Spanish flu" strain from 1918 and even a strain of the H5N1 avian flu.
"It says that a universal influenza vaccine is really possible," said Patrick Wilson of the University of Chicago, who worked on the paper published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Many teams are working on a "universal" flu shot that could protect people from all flu strains for decades or even life.
U.S. officials say an effective universal flu vaccine would have enormous ramifications for the control of influenza, which kills anywhere from 3,300 to 49,000 people in the United States each year.
Wilson's team started making the antibodies in 2009 from nine people who had been infected in the first wave of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic before an H1N1 vaccine had been produced. The hope was to develop a way to protect healthcare personnel.
Working with researchers from Emory University School of Medicine, the team produced 86 antibodies that reacted with the H1N1 virus, and tested them on different flu strains.
Of these, five were cross-protective, meaning they could interfere with many strains of flu including the 1918 "Spanish flu" and a strain of H5N1 or avian flu.
Tests of these antibodies in mice showed they were fully protected from an otherwise lethal dose of flu.
And some of these cross-protective antibodies were similar in structure to those discovered by other teams as having potential for a universal flu vaccine.
"It demonstrates how to make a single vaccine that could potentially provide permanent immunity to all influenza," Wilson said in a telephone interview.
"LOLLIPOP STICK"
Flu vaccines and drugs focus on proteins found on the surface of the flu virus called hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, which give influenza A viruses their names, as in H5N1 or H1N1.
Hemagglutinin is a lollipop-shaped structure with a big, round head. This head is so large it attracts most of the immune system antibodies, but it mutates readily.
Two years ago, researchers working for Crucell NV and a separate team found that antibodies that attach to the "stick" or stalk part of the hemagglutinin lollipop mutate much less -- providing a perfect target for a vaccine that could neutralize a range of different flu viruses.
"Previously, this type of broadly protective, stalk-reactive antibody was thought to be very rare," Jens Wrammert of Emory said in a statement. But in the H1N1 patients, he said, they were "surprisingly abundant."
That may be because the H1N1 virus was so different from other flu strains that the immune system made antibodies for the only parts of the virus it recognized -- this "stick" or stalk region that is common to many flu strains.
Wilson said the study proves it is possible to get the immune system to make these antibodies if it has the right stimulation. The team is working with an unnamed biotechnology company to develop a vaccine or drugs based on this notion.
And a team at the National Institutes of Health is testing a two-step vaccine that uses DNA from stalk-reactive antibodies to "prime" the immune system, followed by a regular flu shot.
A study in July showed this two-step approach protected mice and ferrets against flu strains from 1934 through 2007. This vaccine is now being tested in people.CHICAGO (Reuters) – A study of antibodies from people infected with H1N1 swine... more

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