Spring has finally popped here in the Northeast and even if I couldn’t see the greenery outside my window, I would know it was time because I am down to the last few jars of tomatoes and peppers I jarred at the end of Summer 2010. Any day now, the earliest of crops will be ready for consumption heralding a return to the healthy, fresh eating of the warmer months. Strawberries, asparagus, ramps, radishes, and an array of baby greens are all just a few weeks away. In fact, we’re already starting to see them showing up in groceries and farmer’s markets.
As busy students, workers and parents, it can be hard to remember to eat well when we have so little time. Grabbing grub on the go often leads to poor dietary habits. This is especially true in Winter months when it is even more difficult and costly to find fresh, healthy snacks. So rejoice! Spring has sprung and the goodies will soon start to arrive.
Click here for more about the bounty of Spring produce.
Researchers in British Columbia, Canada, have found MRSA infected bedbugs. MRSA is an anti-biotic resistant staff infection which this blog has covered before here and here. The researchers found that in impoverished communities (like homeless populations living in close quarters in shelters and residential hotels for) harbor conditions for bedbugs to carry MRSA. They found several dangerous strains of the infection in bedbug samples they collected.
There is, according to the scientists in this article on the story, no imminent danger of this development being a vector for widespread transmission of MRSA. However, it is always important to keep an eye on diseases with such potential to spread, unchecked through the global population. 
