AFP
Apr 05 10:03 AM US/Eastern The H5N1 bird flu virus has for the first time been detected on a poultry farm in Germany, the ministry for social affairs in the eastern state of Saxony said.
A spokeswoman for the ministry, Elke Reinking, said Wednesday that a special protection zone of three kilometres (1.9 miles) had been drawn around the poultry farm in Leipzig, where orders have been given to slaughter some 15,000 turkeys. It was not yet clear whether the disease detected in dead turkeys on the farm on Tuesday was the highly pathogenic form of H5N1 which can prove fatal to humans, the ministry said. |
BBC
Wednesday, 5 April 2006 |
AFP
Wed Apr 5, 10:19 AM ET JERUSALEM - An outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 strain of bird flu in the Gaza Strip is "partially under control", health experts said, while voicing concern for its impact on the local diet.
"The situation is partially under control and that control should improve," local World Health Organisation chief Ambroglio Manenti told journalists. |
By LIBBY QUAID
AP Food and Farm Writer Apr 05 8:35 PM US/Eastern WASHINGTON - Cancer-causing benzene has been found in soft drinks at levels above the limit considered safe for drinking water, the Food and Drug Administration acknowledged Wednesday.
Even so, the FDA still believes there are no safety concerns about benzene in soft drinks, or sodas, said Laura Tarantino, the agency's director of food additive safety. |
06 April 2006
From New Scientist Print Edition Rob Edwards THE cloud of radiation spewed out by the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 20 years ago could kill up to 60,000 people - 15 times as many as officially estimated. So say scientists who are accusing two UN organisations, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO), of downplaying the impact of the accident.
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