Four People Killed In Jet Crash

I just found this story about the Blink 182 drummer and another musician getting injured in that recent airplane accident.  I was unaware that 4 people were killed.  There was a loud noise.  I wonder if it was terrorists?"Four people were recently killed in a...

California: Fires Burn 30 Homes

" Fires that ignited along Interstate 5 in Stockton swept through a neighborhood and torched at least 30 homes, said a city spokeswoman, Connie Cochran. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries, she said, but...

Popcorn fumes cause cancer: study

Chemicals used in flavouring microwave popcorn may have caused the first case of "popcorn lung" (lung cancer from chemical fumes related to microwave popcorn production) in a consumer. The disease is already...

Two Injured In Thursday Morning Fire

" June 1, 2007 Washington - Two Vancouver residents were in critical condition today after suffering smoke inhalation in a fire at their east Vancouver home. The victims, described as an adult male and an adult female, were undergoing hyperbaric treatment at a Portland...

Wildfire destroys southeast Georgia

UPDATE: The fire continues to blaze, and there is still little being said or done about it outside the area itself. The AP reports: "Fatigue is becoming a problem for residents and firefighters as the wildfires in...

3 Children Treated For Smoke Inhalation In Tamarac Fire

" January 5, 2007 Florida - A fire injured three children and displaced at least five people Friday morning, a Tamarac Fire Department spokesman said. The blaze broke out at a duplex in the 7600 block of Northwest 74th Avenue about 7 a.m. while a father and his three children...

Gulf Veterans Have Fathered Offspring With Serious Birth Defects

At a rate FOUR TIMES higher than the non-veteran population.

Children Born Of Female Military Veterans

Study reveals that U.S. Gulf War veterans' children have a much higher likelihood of having three specific types of birth defects: Children born of male veterans -Two types of heart valve abnormality. Children born of female veterans - Genital-urinary defects. Study...

Fastest Growing Leukemia Cluster In The U.S. Over The Past Decade

"Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause."

Babies Born To 251 Veterans

"67 per cent of the babies were reported to have serious illnesses or serious birth defects. They were born without eyes, ears, had missing organs, fused fingers, thyroid or other malfunctions. Depleted uranium in the semen of the soldiers internally contaminated...

He Was Exposed To Depleted Uranium

He was sent home from Iraq, stricken by a sudden illness. One side of his face would swell up each morning. He had constant migraine headaches, blurred vision, blackouts and a burning sensation whenever he urinated.

Tests On Returning Troops Suggest DU Health Consequences

"immediately urged his wife to get an ultrasound check of their unborn baby. They discovered the fetus had a condition common to those with radioactive exposure: atypical syndactyly. The right hand had only two digits/angry at a government that never warned him about...

Born in Afghanistan

Breathing uranium oxide dust in Afghanistan is not healthy.  Need to watch the future births to the non-civilians who might have visited this uranium contaminated country. 

Man with anthrax takes turn for the worse

He is believed to have breathed in anthrax spores from raw goat skins he had imported from Africa.

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