Call For Testing Of Poisoned Town: Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease
Following detection of Alzheimer's disease in a former resident of the so-called poison town, a new survey calls for further testing of people // who reside in the Cornish town that was hit by water poisoning in 1988. The suggestion has been made in a Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. ....The death of resident Carole Cross, which was published on Thursday raised concerns about t...Salmonella Poisoned Frozen Pasta Hit Six
In Adelaide, Frozen pasta (such as frozen Beef Ravioli and Ravioli de Brodo products) caused salmonella poisoning in six people //. ....The classical symptoms of Salmonella poisoning are severe vomiting and diarrhoea...South Australian Health Department public health director Kevin Buckett said due to non-removal of the shell and eating the product in raw state poisoning may have occurred. .......40 People in Orissa Taken Ill After Consuming Poisoned Fish
Kendrapada: At least 40 people including nine children fell ill after consuming poisoned dead fish// from a pond in Orissa's Kendrapada district, police said Friday. ....Residents of Dashipur village, some 45 km from the district headquarters of Kendrapada and 70 km from the state capital, Bhubaneswar, brought fish from their village pond and fell ill after consuming fish curry Thursday, office...Jharkhand Elephant may Have Been Poisoned
An eight-year-old elephant which died under mysterious circumstances not far from here may have been poisoned, officials say//. ....The animal died Tuesday in Huntar village, 45 km from Ranchi. Forest officials are awaiting an autopsy to ascertain the cause of death. But they suspect it was poisoned. ...."We are not sure but we strongly believe the elephant was poisoned to death by villagers. E...Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms
More and more literally devastating evidence of global warming keeps coming up from across the world. A glacier in Norway is shrinking fast and toxic Californian// seawaters are killing marine life in their thousands. ....Global warming continues to wreak havoc. A couple of days ago it was reported that a Norwegian glacier had shrunk on an island 1,000 km from the North Pole, a usually frozen f...Representatives of workers of the Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) in Kodaikanal, a popular hill station in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu , traveled all the way to Bombay in western India and addressed the media on Wednesday to urge the companys share-holders to raise to raise the issues of mercury contamination and long term medical remediation of the victims at the Annual General Meetin...That the notorious US Central Intelligence Agency mounted innumerable attempts to kill its bete noire, Cubas Fidel Castro, is well known . ......Forget the politics of it all, the CIA has indeed been resourceful, even if they came to grief every time. Castro has already turned 80. Still the recently declassified documents of the agency do make fascinating reading. And now Cuban intelligence sour...