Following death of five children due to suspected outbreak of diphtheria here in the past one week, the Haryana health authorities have sounded an alert to control the bacterial disease. The deaths have been reported from the urban slum areas – Davar Colony and Ashok Vihar – located adjacent to Kutani road. Panipat chief medical officer Dr SP Gupta told the Hindustan Times on Wednesday that the situation was quite serious and the authorities had taken appropriate steps. Read article
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Kanawha County health officials are alerting people after a person died from the deadly Hantavirus. Officials with the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department held a press conference Thursday, Sept. 9, after tests confirmed that a Kanawha County resident died from the disease. Read article
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The second death from West Nile Virus appeared yesterday in El Paso after the number of infected people rose to 16 while in Ciudad Juarez have been only suspected cases of the viral disease, reported the heads of departments Health of both cities. The person who died after being infected by a mosquito carrying the […]
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INFORMATION FROM LAN.COM LAN to update its sales and check-in system On September 7 and 8, LAN will change its sales and Check-in system, which may cause some delays or congestion to its services. If you plan to travel between September 7-24, we request you take the following precautions. Preventative measures Change schedule Office opening […]
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The National Telecommunications Secretariat (Senatel) introduced today a part of the National Numbering Plan, through which a new digit increase in cellular telephony. This is the number 9, which users placed after the zero. Thus be 10 digits that the user will have to remember to make a call. ECUADOR REAL ESTATE – EITHER BUY […]
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TRAVEL ALERT ARGENTINA Mercopress.com reported limits dollar trading for arriving tourists in ports and airports in Argentina The Argentine government is further tightening the US dollar clamp. On Thursday the Central bank announced that state-run banks and agencies will be the only ones officially allowed to operate foreign currency exchange offices in airports and ports. […]
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STRIKE action is threatening to hit Birmingham Airport after workers rejected an offer of a pay rise. Employees voted against the offer of a 2.5 per cent increase which would have been their first pay rise since 2009. Read article
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Lufthansa cabin staff will strike throughout Germany on Friday, upping the stakes in a battle over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for weeks and cost Germany’s biggest airline tens of millions of euros. Airline’s flight attendants walked off the job at Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin airports Tuesday, forcing Lufthansa to cancel hundreds […]
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An elderly man has died in Greece in what officials believe to be the country’s first case of dengue fever since the 1920s. The man, in his 80s, died in hospital on 30 August after contracting fever in the western village of Agrinio. Read article
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The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 14 and the crisis is not yet under control, medical officials have claimed. The epicentre of the outbreak, which killed its first victim last month, is in the busy town of Isiro in Orientale Province, but it has spread […]
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