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CBC News The White House has announced new plans to prepare the U.S. for the possibility that avian influenza will become easily transmissible among humans and spur a pandemic that could kill as many as two million Americans.
Comment: From the people that brought you the Hurricane Katrina Disaster plan! More thrills! More excitement! More death! More fear!
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UPI
May 3, 2006 TRENTON, N.J. -- Two samples of potentially deadly anthrax bacteria missing from a Trenton, N.J., laboratory were mislabeled and have been found, a report said Wednesday.
"There was a transcription error in the numbers when labeling them for storage," state Deputy Health Commissioner Eddy Bresnitz told the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger. Comment: The most important thing, of course, is that the populace is sufficiently terrified of absolutely everything...
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Reuters
Thu May 4, 2006 NEW YORK - Eye care company Bausch & Lomb Inc. for the first time confirmed its ReNu contact solution has been linked to a "handful" of eye infection cases, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal's Web site on Thursday.
The cases "will be fully evaluated," Margaret Graham, a spokesman for Bausch told the Journal. Graham did not specify where or how many cases are known. |
Reuters
Thu May 4, 2006 SAN AGUSTIN, El Salvador - Friends and relatives of Cruz Hernandez's gathered on Wednesday to celebrate her 128th birthday, a milestone that might make her the world's oldest person.
Hernandez, who relatives say spends most of her time dozing and no longer speaks, was surrounded by some 200 people at her party, some bearing a cake and others dressed as Salvadoran mythological heroes. |
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