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 The teenage pregnancy rate increased in US,
reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention show. On this
ground, a group of 17 girls attending the public high school in the seaside
town of Gloucester, Mass., made a pact to become pregnant and to
raise the children together. At the end of the school year, 17 teenage...
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 The salmonella-contaminated tomatoes have
sickened more than 270 people, but investigators still continue the work to
confirm the source of the outbreak, which remained elusive. At least 43 people
have been hospitalized since mid-April and May, when authorities found cases of
salmonella infections in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,...
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 Hong Kong authorities responded to fears of a dangerous bird flu outbreak and
announced the decision to kill all poultry in the city’s markets and retail
outlets. The order does not affect sales of pre-slaughtered poultry sold
packaged in supermarkets. It does not apply either to Hong
Kong’s chicken farmers because samples taken...
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 Johnny Jackson, a 10-year-old South Carolina boy, died
at home Sunday from “dry drowning” more than an hour after he swallowed water
in a swimming pool. The boy went to a swimming pool and then walked home with
his mother.
“I've never known a child could walk
around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with water,” the boy’s...
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 Environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the U.S.
government on Tuesday in their effort to cease a federal wildlife refuge
in Wyoming from going on feeding
wild elk. They say this could lead to or worsen a spread of diseases in the large
wildlife and livestock around Yellowstone
National Park.
Among the diseases the...
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 On Monday in Mexico, two of the major oil export ports were closed due to bad weather conditions brought about by Tropical Storm Arthur.As the wind got stronger and the sea roughened, the Department of Communications and Transportation of Mexico announced that the ports of Dos Bocas and Cayo Arcas would be closed down. Pajaritos, the...
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 On Saturday, one day before the official start of the hurricane season, the first tropical storm of the year formed in the Belize region and it is now heading towards the mainland. Tropical Storm Arthur could come with up to 10 inches (125 to 250 millimeters) of rain in Guatemala and Belize and up to 15 inches (380 millimeters) of rain...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration brought out a public
health advise to notify patients, caregivers and health care professionals that
they should switch to hydrofluoroalkane (HFA)-propelled albuterol inhalers
because chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled inhalers will not be available in
the U.S. after
December 31, 2008....
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 On Thursday, the "Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States" report was released by the Bush administration. Four years of research were needed to put all the information together; however, it was thanks to a court order that the report eventually came out. One of the conclusions of the report...
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 After analyzing samples of drinking water
in Las Lomas, the California Water Service Company found above-normal levels of
mercury. Several thousands residents of Las Loma were warned to stop drinking
water because of high mercury levels.
The Monterey County Sheriff's Office says
the contamination may have occurred when a storage...
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