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Meningitis Scare Keeps Children At Home In Rhode Island

Meningitis scare has kept 20,000 children in three communities at home, as all public schools in Rhode Island were closed on Thursday and Friday.// On Wednesday a child from Coventry was diagnosed with meningitis. Meningitis is the condition in which membranes prot...

Potential Threats of Bioterrorism

...lth messages that portray dire scenarios to try to scare people into quitting smoking or using seatbelts, similar bioterrorism scenarios do not lead to any measurable beneficial behavior change,” notes senior author Dr. Hillel Cohen, associate professor of epidemiology and population health at Einstein. ...

Hand-foot-mouth Disease Scare Causes Temporary Shut Down of Malaysian Preschools

... we are taking pro-active measures.’ The present scare brought back memories of two major outbreaks in the previous year, which had led to the closure of 25 kindergartens and preschools in the state. The disease has no connection to foot-and-mouth disease, which afflicts cattle and sheep; officials sai...

No Takers for India's First Bird Flu Vaccine

...even its doses, prepared after the avian influenza scare last year. The High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) here, which developed the vaccine in July 2006, has preserved about 100,000 doses of the vaccine, each costing 27 paise. But no drug manufacturing company has contacted it so far to buy...

Flu Vaccination Must for Asthmatic, US Officials Stress

...sleading. For at the time of the survey when the scare was on, the asthmatic children were given priority for the administration of the flu vaccine. So then possibly more persons than normal were vaccinated that year. The inference is that under normal circumstances the asthmatic children undergoing fl...

Chinese Health Ministry Okays KFC

After a food scare that swept the nation off KFC last week, the Chine...to human health when consumed. The present food scare follows one in 2005, where it was found that the company was using a possibly carcinogenic food dye,...

Tuberculosis – 125 Years Since Discovery, Yet a Challenge to Dat

...and I can tell you that this is by far the biggest scare we have ever faced." SAV...

Two More Pet Food Products Recalled in US

The pet food scare that started in March this year continues unabated. One more firm has said it is withdrawing// two of its brands following reports that animals fed the brands had vomited and also experienced kidney problems. Yet another US pet food manufacturer ha...

Cadbury Indicted on Salmonella Scare

...nts Cadbury have to pay heavily for the salmonella scare that took place last year. //The company had faile...ne of the most trusted brands for decades. The scare of the infection came to light last June when there was a rise in the cases of people, especially ch...

Relationships are Built on Love and Power

...ll the tune, Krueger said. Women, "knowing they'll scare men off if they appear to be too strong", allow this as part of the "coalition agreement". Women are usually more cooperative and only gradually become more assertive, Krueger said. Boeckling warned, however, that attempting to alter an established...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...mbarking on a pregnancy: "What we don't want is to scare people to stop people taking this drug suddenly because that can result in seizures and, potentially, deaths." A Sanofi-Synthelabo spokeswoman was quoted: " The appropriate treatment of epilepsy during pregnancy is a highly complex area and Sanofi-...

TB Super-strain Found in Myanmar Migrants

... A man in the United States caused a global health scare after he was diagnosed with XDR last month but travelled to Europe and Canada against doctors' advice. The two Myanmar migrants' cases sparked no such clamour when they were diagnosed last week. The health system in military-ruled Myanmar has colla...

Chinese Chilli Flunks Food Safety Tests

...li products have failed safety tests in the latest scare for China's maligned food industry, state media reported. China's quality control watchdog found excessive amounts of preservatives in 13 percent of 46 chilli products tested across the country recently, Xinhua news agency said in a report issued la...

Flush Water Pipes to Reduce Lead Contamination Risk, Schools Told

It looks like a case of health care via health scare in the West. Panic triggered off by relatively minor episodes is resulting in preemptive efforts on a vast scale. In Canada after the measles outbreak, it is the risk of lead contamination that is engaging the attention of the Ontario province autho...

TB and Measles Scare in Canada Now

...lawyer did not visit Calgary in Canada, still a TB scare has been set off there.Its health officials are testing 200 people who may have been exposed to tuberculosis while visiting a city hospital. At the same time say a teenage Japanese student suspected of having measles remains in isolation in Vancou...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Doing Well in Hospital

The tuberculosis scare continues unabated across the Atlantic. But the man who set off the panic is doing well in a hospital in Denver that specializes in the disease. The man himself has been identified as Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old attorney from Atlanta. He is not c...

Soft Drink Additive Could Cause Cell Damage

A new scare over soft drinks is in the making following revelations that a common preservative found in such popular brands like Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. That would mean serious cell damage. For when parts of DNA a...

Study on Bioactive Paper That can Detect Life Threatening Bacteria and Viruses

...d in the wake of the SARS outbreak and the anthrax scare in the US. "What bioactive paper will offer are immediacy, portability and low-cost in detecting and repelling or deactivating harmful pathogens. Right now, it can take days or weeks to get samples to a lab, diagnose the problem and get the remedy ...

Children Using Slide in Playground Treated for Exposure to Poisoning

...activity in the area. There was a lead poisoning scare in US school a few years ago when cracked and peeling paint on some windows in some schools had tested positive for lead poisoning. Dr. Robert Adler, professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California and an expert witness had then ob...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...mbarking on a pregnancy: "What we don't want is to scare people to stop people taking this drug suddenly because that can result in seizures and, potentially, deaths." A Sanofi-Synthelabo spokeswoman was quoted: " The appropriate treatment of epilepsy during pregnancy is a highly complex area and Sanofi-...

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