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Bird Flu Not The Cause For Mysterious Bird Deaths

...arms to check for bird flu and reduce the people’s scare of eating chicken meat. The federal heath department has registered medicines in its preparations for possible bird flu cases in the country. Two Peshawar based pharmaceutical companies have started manufacturing medicine for bird flu affected human...

Measles Rate Shoot Up among Nursery Children in Scotland

In Scotland after the MMR vaccination scare in 1990 the vaccination rates fell sharply. This led to the increase in measles rate among the nursery children. Hence the health// officials are urging the parents to take the MMR jab as soon as possible to protect their children. Statistics show t...

HIV Scare at St Ives

... in the number of HIV cases. This has led to a HIV scare among the people of Cornwall. // It is popular tourism spot with surfers and art lovers. The cases that have been identified with HIV are people aged 20 to 50. All were infected through heterosexual sex. The West Cornwall Primary Care Trust declined...

Reports Of A HIV Break Out Scare People Of A Holiday Island

... a telephone helpline set up in the wake of an HIV scare in St Ives. The confidential line (0845 850 9850) was set up last week by the local health authority after a sudden rise of up to 10 cases. The exact numbers of cases have not yet been revealed, but investigations have suggested the virus may have ...

Cancer Cause Not Yet Ascertained

With cause of the cancer scare not yet ascertained the top floors of the Melbourne office block could be indefinitely quarantined if authorities are unable to identify the cause of illnesses.// Tests on radiofrequency emissions, biological agents and volatile organic compounds h...

Bird flu no threat to McDonald's chicken: Advertisement strategy

...which would ensure that is a epidemic and bird flu scare spread they can influence the customers. They have already prepared ads and would air them, as soon as needed. It is now a fact backed by scientific research that humans cannot get bird flu by eating chicken that has been cooked and prepared proper...

Chinese Parents Warned Of Triple Health Scare

...baby powder. The newspaper said that the current scare was announced after the bottles, which were first discovered in a spot check in supermarkets were found to contain twice the legal limit of hydroxybenzene. This chemical dissolves in heated milk and causes liver and kidney damage. The paper added t...

Indonesian Tourism on Downward Trend After Java Quake

... million rupiah ($50,000) per day. Adding to the scare for tourists is the nearby Mount Merapi, which has been rumbling for weeks. Experts said the quake had triggered a dramatic increase in the volcano's activity. Bagus Sudibyo, deputy chairman of the Indonesian Travel and Agencies Association, predic...

MMR – Related Autism, Doctor’s Need To Be Chargd

...n 1998 says. Thus Doctor’s who has done a health scare over the MMR vaccinated children need to face a charge of professional misconduct for their act. A survey with British people revealed nearly 92% of children in the year 1995-96 and only 82% in the year 2002-03 were taken the vaccine under 2 years...

Cadbury Dismisses Rumors of Withdrawal of More Products

...ould face a cost of 25 mln stg from the salmonella scare are about five times more than its original estimate. However as a Cadbury spokesman insisted, it is 'far to early to say' what the eventual cost will be. ...

UK doctor Charged By GMC For Professional Misconduct

...lished in The Lancet in 1998, had sparked a health scare when it had suggested that their might exist a causal link between the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) injection with autism and bowel problems. Reports now indicate that the GMC is now charging Dr. Andrew Wakefield, for having published ...

Malaria, Jaundice Scare In Sirsa Village

...aundice at Pahihari village near here has caused a scare among villagers in the area, officials here said. // The local Primary Health Centre (PHC) here today constituted a team to collect blood samples of patients and others vulnerable to the diseases, they said. At least one member of all families liv...

Safe Sex and Good Sex is the Talk of AIDS Conference

...argest// AIDS conference. "Fear of AIDS will not scare people into having safer sex. It will become like the anti-smoking drives which everyone ignores," Yvonne Green, an AIDS activist from South Africa says. "We must be able to talk about sexual pleasure in public. Without it the international HIV/AID...

Viral Epidemic In Gujarat

... city, but officials said that there was no plague scare in the city. The administration has been put on alert following the deaths caused by suspected PS....

Study Revels That Women Of Italy Are High-Risk Drinkers

... particularly on a regular basis. We don't want to scare women who may have had a drink or two before they found out they were pregnant that they're going to have children with FAS problems but, to be on the safe side, women should abstain if possible.” Sorce: EurekAlert....

Danger and insecurity in contemporary life

...orld with growing uncertainties," he says. Media scare stories about all kinds of threats, from the Millennium bug and bird flu, to the dangers to health of mobile phones and GM foods, have been blamed for making people more fearful of technological innovations and less trusting of scientists and governm...

Pre-Clinical Study Suggests How Steroid Can Reverse Post-Traumatic Stress

...r two seconds,” he said. “It’s more than enough to scare you, makes you react briskly, and makes you hesitant to touch the door handle again.” The mice were returned to the box two days later, and their fear, gauged by how long they “froze” in place, remained high. A few minutes later, they were injected...

Chikungunya Scare In Kerala

... rains continue to pelt the state. The chikungunya scare so far was centered around Vizhinjam, but health officials said it could not be confined to some pockets as mosquitoes are increasing due to rains. "It is a fact that we failed to anticipate the emergence of the disease here. It was around July 20 th...

Pregnant Women With Lupus Are At Greater Risk

...th, Clowse said. "We don't want these results to scare women with lupus away from getting pregnant, especially if they have a mild form of the disease," Clowse said. "But these women really must plan their pregnancies. They may need to change their medications before they get pregnant, and they really sh...

Hepatitis Scare at McDonald’

... procedures for handling food, after a Hepatitis A scare ignited by a sick worker. // It is assumed that the sick worker, who handed over the food to customers, must have exposed hundreds to the risk of having Hepatitis A infection. This happened a fortnight ago, after which, the worker has been suspende...

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