Have you heard this story yet? The one about a woman in Arizona who went jogging and was bitten by a fox? She is fine, which makes the story a happy one but what's truly amazing is that the girl continued running -- yes, she kept running -- for another mile, with the fox dangling from her arm. I don't know about you, but a fox attached to my arm by fierce and sharp teeth would serve as a pretty good excuse to give up on a workout. Heck, a cramp in my side is enough for me to stop. This gal is clearly one fit cookie.

Why'd she keep running? It wasn't exactly because she wanted to finish her workout. It was because she wanted to make it back to her car, where she could pry the fox off her arm, toss it in her trunk, and get the thing tested for rabies. Which is exactly what she did, after she was treated at the hospital first, of course. Incidentally, an animal control officer was also struck by the fox when he tried to remove it from the trunk. Both he and the jogger have received post-exposure rabies vaccinations.

Makes that quiet jog through my neighborhood seem like not such a grueling task. A cramp in my side -- yeah, I'm thinking it's not really worthy of much whining now. And what implications does this story have for you? Well, perhaps you need to add one more item to your outdoor workout safety list: Beware of rabid animals.

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Curious to know how celebrities squeeze fitness into their daily lives? Want to know the secrets of the stars? Bi-weekly our That's Fit fitness expert Fitz sits down with the celebs we want to know more about, and digs out their great and not-so-great methods to staying healthy.

I recently had the opportunity to spend time with Shane "Scooter" Christensen of the World Famous Harlem Globetrotters. Now, when handed the opportunity to pick the brain of a Globetrotter....I had to learn some skills! Cause quite frankly, when it comes to basketball....I have none. Well, I had none until I met Scooter. Now I know how to dunk.

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Several children in the Nevada and Arizona have developed strange cases of leukemia, and officials are trying to determine what the cause may be. So far, the search is centering on environmental factors.

Researchers from around the area are looking at genetic changes that happened during infancy (or before birth) as well as anything that may have changed before the mysterious onset of leukemia in this odd cluster in the desert.

Since 1997, 17 children have fallen ill from leukemia while three have died, and the water and environmental factor correlation still have produced no results, but progress is being made, according to the researchers. One thing that has been discovered -- a high amount of Tungsten has been discovered in the area where the leukemia cluster is contained.

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Gotta love top 10 lists, right? Even if they're on gross topics, like which American city could fill an Olympic sized swimming pool with sweat in less than three hours? Well here's a list that couldn't be more appropriate for the height of summer: the top 10 sweatiest cities in America (and yes, #1 can fill the pool -- yuck!).

1) Phoenix, AZ
2) Las Vegas, NV
3) Tucson, AZ
4) Dallas, TX
5) Corpus Christi, TX
6) San Antonio, TX
7) Austin, TX
8) Shreveport, LA
9) Houston, TX
10) Waco, TX

An Arizona city may have the #1 spot, but looking at this list Texas is the sweatiest state by far!



Via Gadling

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In a locked down room in an Arizona hospital sits a man who's been imprisoned for nearly a year, and his sentence is indefinite...though he's not a criminal. His "crime" is having an extremely drug-resistant variety of tuberculosis, and his condition is considered untreatable. Officials got a court order to quarantine him last year after he failed to follow doctor's orders and wear a mask in public to prevent spreading the disease.

Beyond getting a TB test before being hired at certain jobs, I don't think many of us worry about TB these days. That's probably because TB is treatable, and rates of infection in the United States are at their lowest. But this new, resistant TB is showing up all over the world, and the WHO warns that in our globalized culture, viruses are only a plane ride away. Several states, including Texas, California, and New York reported detaining TB patients involuntarily last year. The practice is rare, and typically only happens when patients refuse to follow doctor's guidelines for preventing infection.

Health experts warn that if patients do not comply, the new strain of TB could spread and turn a completely treatable disease to an incurable one. Others in the medical community criticize the practice of detention for placing blame on the victim of the disease and say it should always be a last resort. What's your opinion of this practice -- necessary to protect public health, or a violation of civil liberties for those involved?

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