(Reuters) – An outbreak of the Hepatitis E virus has killed 16 people in three South Sudanese refugee camps near the volatile border with Sudan, authorities and the United Nations said on Thursday. South Sudan’s border region has been flooded with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Read article
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FOURTEEN people in Gwent have been struck down by a bug that has triggered the closure of the swimming pool at the Newport Centre. Environmental and public health experts are investigating the outbreak of cryptosporidiosis – which can cause watery diarrhoea, stomach pain, nausea or vomiting and fever – with cases having been reported since […]
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A protester has been shot dead by police outside the US embassy in Yemen, the Reuters news service has reported. Up to 5,000 protesters stormed the US compound in Sanaa as anger about an anti-Muslim film spreads in the Middle East. Read article
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From media reports: RTE News reported on Thursday that workers of Aer Lingus who are members of Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union’s aviation sector are planning to strike from Monday, 1 October 2012. The union called for work stoppages because of an alleged “breach of collective agreements,” part of an ongoing work dispute concerning […]
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Striking maintenance and emergency services workers have tabled a wage package that demands raises of 58 per cent over four years, the head of the St. John’s International Airport Authority says. “That’s quite a substantial and unrealistic wage package,” authority president and chief executive officer Keith Collins told CBC News Wednesday. Read article
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The Comfort Suites hotel in Grantville, PA is dealing with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. Hotel guests may have come down with a case of the disease which has led to an investigation of the hotel. Guests who stayed at the Comfort Suites hotel in Grantville have contracted Legionnaires’ disease. Recent hotels guests have been […]
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HAMPSHIRE parents are being warned of the dangers of not getting their children vaccinated following an outbreak of rubella across the county. Latest figures have revealed that there have been 14 confirmed cases of the potentially dangerous infection in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight between January and July this year – compared to none […]
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Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh: With encephalitis claiming one more life, the death toll due to the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has mounted to 275, health officials said in Gorakhpur today. Additional Director (Health) Diwakar Prasad said a child from Deoria district died of the disease on Monday night at, Baba Raghav Das Medical College […]
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Passengers at Adelaide Airport could be facing disruptions from next week if security screeners follow through on their threat to strike. The workers want a 15 per cent pay rise, and then a four per cent annual increase after that. Read article
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Unionized workers at St. John’s International Airport set up picket lines early Tuesday morning, claiming that last-ditch efforts to prevent a strike had gone nowhere. The Union of Canadian Transportation Employees (UTCE) represents about 85 airport workers who handle such duties as equipment maintenance, fire and emergency services and runway clearing. read article
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