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| Man With Drug-Resistant TB Locked Up
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| posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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PHOENIX - Behind the county hospital's tall cinderblock walls, a
27-year-old tuberculosis patient sits in a jail cell equipped with a
ventilation system that keeps germs from escaping. Robert Daniels has
been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since
last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he
suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or
XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable.
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| Killer Bug Sows Panic In Israel
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| posted on Monday, March 12, 2007
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JERUSALEM - A killer bacteria resistant to antibiotics is sowing panic
across Israel as it sweeps through hospitals, leaving scores dead and
afflicting hundreds more.
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| U.S. Companies Prepare For Bird Flu Pandemic
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| posted on Friday, February 09, 2007
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ORLANDO, FLORIDA - Exxon plans to keep some refinery workers living in
the plants to keep them going. A small Southern grocery chain is
thinking about drive-through pickup of soup and bread.
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| U.S. Issues Guidelines In Case Of Flu Pandemic
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| posted on Monday, February 05, 2007
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ATLANTA - Cities should close schools for up to three months in the
event of a severe flu outbreak, ball games and movies should be
canceled and working hours staggered so subways and buses are less
crowded, the federal government advised today in issuing new pandemic
flu guidelines to states and cities.
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| Policies Set For Air-Travel Disease Containment
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| posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007
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WASHINGTON - Parking an aircraft at a distant gate may help keep
potentially infectious travelers away from the general public,
according to a manual released Thursday by the U.S. Department of
Transportation.
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| Deadly H5N1 May Be Brewing In Cats
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| posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007
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Bird flu hasn't gone away. The discovery, announced last week, that the
H5N1 bird flu virus is widespread in cats in locations across Indonesia
has refocused attention on the danger that the deadly virus could be
mutating into a form that can infect humans far more easily.
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| Concern As Revived 1918 Flu Virus Kills Monkeys
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| posted on Friday, January 19, 2007
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The 1918 influenza virus, which killed some 50 million people
worldwide, has proved fatal to macaques infected in a laboratory. The
study follows Nature's controversial publication of the virus's
sequence in 2005, alongside a paper in Science that described the
recreation of the virus from a corpse and its potency in mice.
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| Movie: 'Children of Men'
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| posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2006
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The end is nigh in "Children of Men"
<http://www.childrenofmen.net/>, the superbly directed political
thriller by Alfonso Cuarón about a nervously plausible future. It's
2027, and the human race is approaching the terminus of its long
goodbye. Cities across the globe are in flames, and the "siege of
Seattle" has entered Day 1,000. In a permanent war zone called Britain,
smoke pours into the air as illegal immigrants are swept into
detainment camps. It's apocalypse right here, right now -- the end of
the world as we knew and loved it, if not nearly enough.
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