A Cruise Ship Has Been Quarantined in Southeastern Brazil Due to Food Poisoning Vision of the Seas from Royal Caribbean has been quarantined in Buzios in southeastern Brazil due to over 300 people suffering from food poisoning aboard the ship according to ABC News. Passengers...
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Update 06/10/09 11:41 pm EST Mayor Nagin released from flu quarantine in China earlier today and is headed to Australia.Chinese authorities had quarantined Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, and his wife after...
The leprosy patients in india are treated as untouchable and most are quarantined live in desparate conditions. My visit to Mother Teresa missionary of charity run by the sisters for leprosy patients in below...
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Twenty-five Canadian students that arrived in Changchun, China on Sunday have been placed in quarantine amidst fears of the H1N1 flu outbreak. Their temperatures were taken at the airport, and although none...
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A man in Scotland has swine flu he cought from his friend after he had returned from Mexico. This confirms what everone was worried about, that Humans can pass it on to another human, so far it was only cases of...
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Experts at the Centers for Disease Control address the subject of voluntary or involuntary placement of individuals in isolation or quarantine this way: "To contain the spread of a contagious illness, public health authorities rely on many strategies. Two of these strategies...
opinion by BMCWrites | 2 years ago 173 views | 14 recommendations | 0 comments
It still remains unclear whether the Chinese woman who died on Wednesday on the train bound for Moscow from the Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk (near the Chinese border) has died from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or some other infectious agent. SARS is an...
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B.C. poulty and bio-security officials report that for the next three weeks extensive testing and containment measures to curb any spread of the avian flu H5N1 virus will be in effect in the Abbotsford area of...
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" The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it is investigating the possibility of an H5 avian influenza outbreak on a turkey farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley. Agency spokesperson Monika Mazur says testing done at the...
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Two species that have both been extinct in Britain, are once again returning to its shores; Beavers and Sea Eagles.Last night, four wild beaver families arrived at Heathrow airport from Norway, in the first step...
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The Chinese tainted milk scandal continues to spread each day. Today the country revealed that the number of dairy producers who have the contaminated milk is even wider than originally thought."China, embroiled in the tainted milk scandal that has killed four babies, said 15...
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Hendra virus (formerly called equine morbillivirus) is a member of the family Paramyxoviridae. The virus was first isolated in 1994 from specimens obtained during an outbreak of...
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An independent review of the laboratory at the source of last year's foot and mouth outbreak in the UK has concluded that the lab was 'shabby and dilapidated'. Also blamed for the outbreak of the disease is...
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UPDATE: 1508 EST: CNN reports that authorities have now given the all-clear. EARLIER: This news comes several days after a vial of ricin was found in a hotel room just off the Las Vegas strip. "LAS VEGAS -- One room in the Excalibur Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas has been...
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