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Poor Health of people in Central Goldfields Shire, reports The Victorian Burden of Disease

The Victorian Burden of Disease reports that the Central Goldfields Shire is getting notorious for poor health of its men and women//. The study was conducted by the Human Services Department that chose to study the frequently occurring diseases and injuries in Victoria. The study looks into the harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol use, lack of exercise, obesity, and a poor diet. The easte...

AIDS –spreading like wildfire in Chin

Senior Health Officials have divulged that AIDS is no more restricted to just risk groups alone in China.// Over 190 new AIDS cases are added each day according to statistics with almost one percent of all pregnant women are doubted to be AIDS positive. It is alarming to note that like Africa, which has the largest number of AIDS/HIV infections where the mode of infection is now commo...

Southern California Wildfires Pose Health Risks to Children

USC researchers find nonasthmatics share similar symptoms as those with asthma Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 2006– In October of 2003, multiple wildfires raged throughout Southern California. Now, researchers// at the University of Southern California (USC) report that residents without asthma in wildfire-endangered regions suffered as much as those with asthma. The findings appear in th...

New Study Links Western Wildfires to Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures

Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study// led by the University of Comahue in Argentina and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that links episodic fire outbreaks in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. States like Washington, Oregon, California, Colora...

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

No lives have been lost as yet. But the massive wildfire along the Georgia-Florida border is burning thousands of acres and destroying smaller structures. There is no sign of its dying down. Between 250 and 500 homes west of U.S. 441 had to be evacuated for a second time when the fire line was breached, Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Michael Burroughs said. An additional 570 people who we...

Transcontinental Wildfire Emissions Monitored from Space

Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESAs environmental satellite Envisat, scientists have determined that the carbon monoxide hovering over Australia during the wildfire season largely originated from South American wildfires some 13 000 kilometres away. Using SCIAMACHY, Annemieke Gloudemans from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and her colleagues at Utrec...