KANSAS — Three patients treated at a northwest Kansas hospital in 2010 have tested positive for a strain of hepatitis C “closely related” to a cluster of cases in New Hampshire traced to a traveling hospital technician. Kansas officials notified more than 400 people last month that they may have been exposed to hepatitis C by a technician who worked at the Hays Medical Center’s cardiac catheterization lab from May 24 to Sept. 22, 2010. Read article
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ATLANTA – Federal health officials are warning that kids with neurologic disorders face a high risk of death if they get the flu. A study by scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at more than 300 influenza-related deaths in children during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. It found 60 percent had an […]
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Kathmandu, August 28 – A pressure group demanding construction of regional international airport in Pokhara, has announced shutdown strike including halt of flights to and from Pokhara for August 31 and September 1 on Tuesday. Read article
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Passengers of German airline Lufthansa faced hundreds of possible flight cancellations after cabin crew representatives outlined strike plans for the next few weeks following the collapse of last-ditch pay talks. The UFO union, which represents 18,000 Lufthansa flight attendants, said on Tuesday it would give only a few hours’ notice for most […]
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Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Cuba’s government declared Tuesday that health workers had eradicated a cholera outbreak that infected 417 people and killed three, according to a statement from the country’s Health Ministry. In early July, Cuba said the sometimes fatal water-borne illness had returned to the eastern part of the island. It was the first […]
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Two more suspected cases of the rare hantavirus, one of them a fatality, have been found among people who visited Yosemite National Park in mid-June, park leaders announced Monday. All told, four people are now believed to have contracted the virus while staying at the park this summer. Two died, including a 37-year-old Alameda County […]
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Livingston County Director of Public Health Joan Ellison has issued an alert to the public which advises that seven persons in Livingston County have suffered intestinal infection from e. Coli bacteria. The precise origin of the infections is yet to be pinned down. However, testing to date indicates a common bacterial strain in five the […]
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NEW AIRLINE ROUTES UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR DIRECT TRAVEL TO ECUADOR – According to ElUniverso.comm the Production Sector Council will be responsible for prioritizing new air routes to enter the incentive scheme announced by the government earlier this month. The idea is to grant a subsidy of 40% of a gallon of fuel for three years […]
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From this week, the city government is empowered to impose fines on those caught using your cell phone to “texting” while driving a vehicle, after the amendments to the Regulation and Control of Vehicular Traffic were published in the Journal Official State Government said the director, Jose Obed Silva Sánchez. Read Article
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MANAGEMENT AT DUBLIN Airport and groups representing taxi drivers are currently meeting in a bid to end a dispute which has seen drivers withdraw services for passengers at the airport. Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has urged taxi drivers to resume service to the public but drivers have refused to take fares again today as the […]
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