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FDA attacks American Red Cross for blood violations

...potentially contaminated blood, a lack of adequate quarantine and inventory controls and inadequate donor registration controls. The FDA wants the court to grant it the power to levy fines of $10,000 a day as well as for each future safety violation inspectors discover....

Avoid travel to Toronto - WHO

...n at large. Many are beginning to conclude that no quarantine system can be foolproof for a disease that is hard to detect and easily confused with other ailments in its initial phases....

Canada stunned as mad cow discovery leads to beef ban

...nwhile, Canadian authorities have moved swiftly to quarantine nine other ranches where the cow may have lived. The first question investigators are struggling to answer is how the animal contracted so-called// mad cow disease, otherwise know as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. A decade ago, Canada foun...

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

... possibly exposed to the illness have been told to quarantine themselves at home for 10 days, said Dr. Colin D'Cunha, Ontario's chief medical officer of health. Precautions taken at Toronto Hospitals last month since the outbreak could not control dozens of possible new cases. Health officials conceded on mon...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...sion. But with some 200 people worldwide still in quarantine and a good chance that some cases may have slipped through the net, it is too soon to claim SARS has been beaten, health experts say. "It will be by no means a declaration that the world is SARS-free," said one. Nevertheless, health officials say t...

Some pets found to be SARS carriers

...infected by another source.// "You might want to quarantine the pets as well as the people," suggested Dr. Robert Shope, an expert on emerging diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. "If it's been shown that the virus can transmit from cat to cat, it doesn't take much of a leap of fai...

SARS outbreaks contained

... system. Misdiagnosis of cases and the failure to quarantine infected patients were two key factors that led to Taiwan becoming the world's number three SARS hotspot. Since the introduction of tighter health measures the island has not had a single case since June 15-- the benchmark figure by which an outbreak...

Birds Flu Scare Reaches Germany

... infection in western Europe has been at a British quarantine station. More than 60 people in Asia have caught the illness from birds and died. Concern is mounting that a strain of the avian flu virus harmful to humans -- the H5N1 strain -- could spread in Europe. Russia has confirmed cases of birds killed by...

No Threat of Bird Flu Assures Govt

...ever quantum is allowed has to go through a strict quarantine regime". The animal husbandry commission has also put stress on accepting the "bio-security" measures to combat any possible outbreak, saying "there is no harm even if the precautionary measures are being adopted". The farmers whose birds are sacri...

US Airlines Worried About Bird Flu In Passengers

...evention has taken steps to increase the number of quarantine centers in big airports from 8 in 2003 to 18 at th...ible for the same. Ram Koppaka, chief of the CDC's quarantine and border health division said that plans were afoot to increase these centers to about 25. "I thin...

Doctors attacked for complacency against pandemic threat

... parrot infected with the H5N1 strain that died in quarantine at Heathrow last month. This strain has devastated poultry flocks in the Far East over the past eight years and killed 62 people, raising fears that the world may be on the brink of a lethal mutation of the virus capable of sparking a human pandemic....

U.S. To Tighten Sick Passenger, Quarantine Rules

...al rights for those quarantined. It noted that the quarantine powers would generally only be used in situations where a person posed a threat to public health and refused to cooperate with a voluntary request to be isolated. In addition, pilots and ship captains would only be required to report passengers or c...

Bird Flu Alarm In Indonesia

...d to be infected with the virus fleeing a hospital quarantine unit causing particular alarm. Outbreaks have been reported in 19 other provinces since October, killing or forcing the slaughter of more than a million birds. In southern Tien Giang province, a man who had been admitted to hospital after complaini...

Bird flu makes its presence felt in the Crimean peninsula

...ead. In order to limit the spread of the outbreak quarantine has been established around affected areas. Chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks were among the birds found dead over the past three days. Maria Miroshichenko, head veterinarian in the Crimean region says,”Measures are being taken after the virus was...

BC farms declared free of bird flu

The quarantine on dozens of poultry farms in British Columbia's F...virus remain under quarantine. The lifting of the quarantine means that the normal movement of commercial poultry and poultry products on and off farms in the su...

New Zealand Prepares Itself For Pandemic

The Kapiti and Matiu islands may well become quarantine areas if a flu epidemic were to strike the Welling...n be kept isolated from others. Making the islands quarantine areas also entails difficulties as they can become inaccessible in case of bad weather, leaving the ...

U.S. Preparedness against Bird Flu Not Enough

... to be done in the area of bird flu drug research, quarantine and isolation strategies. Though, U.S. is not in i...d wide. Still, lot has to be done like planning of quarantine and isolation of infected, allocating more funds for bird flu drug research and drug procurement, as...

Wild ducks infected with bird flu

...hich five are sure cases of bird flu. As part of quarantine measures 14,000 birds have been culled and people are not asked to touch the sick birds with bare hands. On Saturday both the Health minister, Recep Akdag and the World Health Organization expert will land in Turkey to test the bird flu cases as a...

Asian Nations Told To Ready Themselves For Pandemic

...s and also possible public health measures such as quarantine and social distancing, the WHO added. Edited ANI...

Turkish PM says bird flu under control

...y's neighbors are also on high alert strengthening quarantine measures for travelers and their cargo inbound fro... said people entering the country could be held in quarantine by border guards if they displayed symptoms of the bird flu. Turkey and Russia share extensive bus...

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