Saturday, October 31, 2009 LONDON: A young woman who was rushed to hospital with agonizing burns following an extreme reaction to a home hair dye kit has told of her frightening experience.Zoe Vernon, 22, was put on a drip and told by medics she had some of the worst burns they had ever seen caused by hair dye.The call centre worker from Didsbury, Manchester, had dyed her hair previously but not with the kit in question, which was a Boots Colour kit.The morning after she coloured her hair she woke up with a red and swollen face and developed more blisters and pains over the following days.Nurses feared her swollen neck would affect her breathing and called an ambulance to rush Miss Vernon to hospital.At the burns unit at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Hospital she was placed on a drip and spent three days recovering.She is now back home but suffers blurred vision in one eye and has to take medication, including steroids.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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