It is examing another 163 probable cases, linked to Flicks restaurant in Belfast’s Cityside shopping complex according to bbc.co.uk. The PHA said the increase in confirmed cases in recent days was not unexpected and is the result of probable cases becoming confirmed. There are now 119 confirmed cases of E. coli in Northern Ireland’s worst ever outbreak, the Public Health Agency (PHA) has said. Read Article
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“Three elderly people have died as a result of being infected by Salmonella Thompson. In total, some 950 people have now been taken ill as a result of the salmon, which have been taken off the shelves,” said the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) in the Netherlands. Dutch food and consumer watchdog NVWA rang […]
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Researchers at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France—Bernard La Scola, Christelle Desnues and Didier Raoult—have discovered a new giant virus. It was found living inside an amoeba found in an eye patient’s contact lens fluid. Inside the virus they also found a new type of virophage (a subviral agent that reproduces in amoeba […]
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A new general strike has been called in Greece for October 18th and it is expected to cause widespread disruption to travel and the closure of many services. Be warned there may be violent protests in central Athens and in other major centres. Read article
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More than 500 people in the Netherlands have now contracted Salmonella infections linked to smoked salmon, and at least one of these patients has died, reported Dutch health officials Saturday. According to The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment of the Netherlands, two fatalities have been connected to the outbreak. One has been […]
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More than 11,000 German schoolchildren fell ill due to a deadly food poisoning outbreak, but the cause of the same was not known. It is now suspected that strawberries were the probable cause of the mass food poisoning, which led children to suffer from diarrhea and vomiting. The news was given by the Robert Koch […]
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The streets of Milan on Friday has become a battlefield. Again, student protests against education cuts and the austerity policy of the Italian Government. College and high school students have filled the city with banners and shouts of protest. Riot police intervened and have lived through moments of violence and tension. Leer más: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=es&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=es&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://videos.lavanguardia.com/20121005/54351662588/batalla-campal-en-las-calles-de-milan.html&usg=ALkJrhiaAOO62kCbzS-7tKjvKLjpI3RpdA#ixzz28VA9sf76 Síguenos […]
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A BRITISH tourist told last night how she spotted runaway Megan Stammers in Paris. Brigitte Ripley, 73, said she recognised a top the 15-year-old was wearing while strolling hand-in-hand with teacher Jeremy Forrest on the Champs-Elysees last Sunday. Read article
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Sep 26, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – A European report has filled in some details about the two severe illnesses linked to a novel coronavirus, but most of the major questions, such as where it came from and how it spreads, remained unanswered today. A 49-year-old Qatari man remained in a London hospital’s intensive care unit […]
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A Canadian visitor to the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich died at the weekend after he was knocked down by a tram while in a drunken state, police said on Monday. The 26-year-old, who was not named, was trying to cross the tram line at approximately 7:15 pm (1515 GMT) on Saturday between two cars […]
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