Outbreak (updated)

Update 2:  8/29/08 --  It may be encephalitisUpdate 8/27/08 -- 35 more have died""“We really don’t know what exactly it is; we are depending on the finding of a team of specialists from New Delhi.”...

Ex-Marine accused of Iraqi prisoner deaths is acquitted

Here's some bad news for the leftists and anti-America crowd: a Marine accused of murder in combat was acquitted today. Cheers broke out in the courtroom as Jose Nazario learned that he was deemed not guilty."A...

Britain set to become Europe's most populated country

Here's an interesting note for those in England who complain about immigration. Just a week after new population figures released in the UK showed that the population in that country is growing at quite a healthy rate, figures released for the EU as a whole show the...

An Aspirin a Day Keeps a Heart Attack at Bay

It has been long known that a daily half tab of soluble aspirin helps those with heart problems by thinning the blood. Experts have now determined the age at which doctors should urge their patients to take a...

Venezuela: no sign of rabies in Indian deaths

" CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan health officials have denied that rabies spread by vampire bats is killing Indians in remote villages, but didn't explain how they came to that conclusion.«There is no...

Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

14 persons died of diarrhea in a district of Nepal

Reportersnepal.com reports that two persons died of diarrhea on Friday while more than 200 have been affected by the problem in Salyan, a remote Western district of Nepal.   The online news report says that no health rescue teams have yet reached the affected district in...

UN warning on India child health

The world will fail to reach millennium development goals unless India improves its record on health and child protection, a UN report says. Unicef, the UN children's agency, says India is failing to provide basic healthcare for its poorest children - despite robust economic...

Shipyard explosion near Athens kills eight, injures four

An explosion and fire on a ship at a dockyard near Athens has killed eight people and injured four. The ship was undergoing repairs at the time."Rescue crews were trying to remove the final three bodies from the Panamanian-flagged Friendship Gas tanker ship at the Perama...

1879: Man hanged for eating family

Shockingly, "man hanged for eating family" would have been an accurate headline in 1879 Alberta. A man was executed that year in Fort Saskatchewan after being convicted of murdering and eating eight members of his own family.The man was thought to be afflicted with...

Checking breasts for lumps does not reduce deaths from cancer

Women have been told to be breast aware but now research seems to show that those that do are no safer from cancer than those that don't. Many women it is thought will still choose to self-examine and report...

White House Buries Global Warming Deaths

  Whether you believe "climate change" is real or a natural phenomenon, a row has developed over claims that the Whtie House buried a report detailing climate change deaths.   " White House buries...

Six dead as Pakistani forces destroy militant house

Violence has erupted in Pakistan as the top Taliban leader there has called off all peace talks with the government in the tribal area along the Pakistan-Afghan border."Pakistani forces blew up the house of a...

Jump racing carnage kills three horses

"In what can only be described as a day of carnage for the Australasian racing industry, three horses lost their lives in two races on either side of the Tasman on Saturday. The deaths have prompted horse welfare activists to renew their calls for an end to jump racing....

Water causes one in 10 diseases: WHO

"Geneva (ANTARA News) - Unsafe water leads to one in 10 diseases and six percent of deaths worldwide, according to estimates in a report to be published by the World Health Organization on Thursday.While the UN agency estimates that problems relating to water cause 9.1...
 

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