According to bdnews24.com, “The government’s disease monitoring agency has recorded five more deaths from the fatal nipah across Bangladesh since the bat-borne virus made a comeback when it took the life of a minor boy recently in Dhaka.” Read Article
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As reported by nz.news.yahoo.com, “The Community and Public Health division of the Canterbury District Health Board have issued health warnings after potentially toxic blue-green algae were found in the Selwyn River at the Whitecliffs Domain and in Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora.” Read Article
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Opposingviews.com reported that along with avoiding the regular flu this year, Americans might have to take extra precautions to avoid catching a new strain of norovirus, otherwise known as the stomach flu. This new strain is said to be responsible for the majority of stomach flu outbreaks between September and December, according to the Centers […]
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finance.yahoo.com/ reported that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned on Thursday that a major cyber attack is a looming threat and could have the same sort of impact as last year’s Superstorm Sandy, which knocked out electricity in a large swathe of the Northeast. Napolitano said a “cyber 9/11” could happen “imminently” and that critical […]
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As reported by themercury.com.au, “The latest bloom, affecting shellfish, crabs and rock lobsters between Nine Pin Point and Huon Point, including Cygnet, is caused by gymnodinium catenatum.It is a different algae to alexandrium tamarense, the culprit in the closure of East Coast fisheries in November, but produces similar toxins.” Read Article
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According to guardian.co.uk, “Thousands of crocodiles are on the loose in South Africa after heavy rains and flooding forced a tourist attraction to open its gates, according to a newspaper report.” Read Article
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As reported by travel.state.gov, “The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens about the security situation in El Salvador…U.S. citizens do not appear to be targeted based on their nationality. However, 22 U.S. citizens have been murdered in El Salvador since January 2010. During the same time period, 230 U.S. […]
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As reported by nzherald.co.nz, “Police are investigating a sexual attack on a male teenager by another man in a Rotorua park. The incident happened about 1pm on Monday in Kuirau Park. The popular tourist attraction was the scene of two sexually-motivated attacks last year and a murder.” Read Article
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According to guardian.co.uk, “In the space of just a couple of weeks Greece’s largest shopping mall has been targeted in a bomb attack, gunmen have fired on the headquarters of the ruling New Democracy party, and gas canisters have been set off outside an array of political party offices, banks and the homes of journalists.” […]
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As reported by the International Herald Tribune, “According to the index, issued last December by the institute, a nonprofit group that works for world peace, in 2011 Thailand had 173 terrorist incidents that resulted in 142 fatalities (Iraq topped the index with 1,228 incidents and 1,798 fatalities.)” Read Article
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