Almost 100 Students from Georgetown Fell Ill
Almost 100 Students from Georgetown Fell Ill

Georgetown University’s main dining hall sickened almost 100 students yesterday. They were treated for stomach illness and a health investigation has started to track the cause of the outbreak. The students were taken to Georgetown University Hospital where more of them came complaining of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. 

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Almost 100 Students from Georgetown Fell Ill
 
 

Bird Flu Toll Number Reaches 91
Indonesian heath officials have just confirmed on Saturday that a 31-year-old man from Sumatra Island who died last week was infected with bird flu, raising the toll in the worst-hit nation to 91. Deaths from the H5N1 virus have been steadily rising in archipelagic Indonesia where the virus is now endemic across 31 of its 33...

Bird Flu Toll Number Reaches 91

Old Trucks to Be Banned From Los Angeles Harbor
In recent events, the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission adopted a port plan that would begin in October 2008 by banning trucks with engines manufactured before 1989. Trucks with model year engines from 1989 through 2003 would have to be retrofitted with devices that catch 85 percent of diesel particulate matter and 25...

Old Trucks to Be Banned From Los Angeles Harbor

Health Warnings Issued Due to Smoke
Latest satellite images have shown out-of-control wildfires that have been  polluting Southern California skies with acrid smoke and falling ash for a third straight day,as public health officials urge the elderly and people with breathing problems to stay indoors. The images showed thick smoke from more than a...

Health Warnings Issued Due to Smoke

No More Smoking in Chicago Park District
A new law passed in the Chicago Park District will vote Wednesday on a proposal to ban smoking at public beaches, playgrounds and play lots. If it passes, it will go into effect immediately. The Chicago Park District announced the proposal at Margate Park on Tuesday morning. It would prohibit smoking at all of the beaches, play...

No More Smoking in Chicago Park District

Parents and Teachers Discuss Contraception Measures of Children
The sexual health of children is being once again a topic of discussion, this time between parents and teachers of Maine school district. Parents and school officials are preparing to battle tonight in a debate about the sexual health of children at one Maine school district. Administrators at a Portland middle school are...

Parents and Teachers Discuss Contraception Measures of Children

People with Arthritis Lack Productivity at Work
According to a government survey released yesterday, more than half of Kentucky workers with arthritis say the chronic condition has limited their ability to work About one-third of U.S. adults with arthritis say it has affected their ability to work, but in Kentucky that percentage of sufferers is 51.3 percent, highest among the...

People with Arthritis Lack Productivity at Work

STD Hidden Epidemic
According to a new study, STD is a huge and hidden epidemic throughout California with 10,270 of 113,000 teenagers and young adults in Ventura County contracting sexually transmitted diseases in 2005. Statistical formulas previously used by the federal government show that the number of cases of Chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, HPV...

STD Hidden Epidemic

Pollution from Power Plants Far Beyond the Limit
According to a report released Thursday by an environmental group more than half of all industrial and municipal facilities across the country dumped more sewage and other pollutants into the nation's waterways than allowed under the Clean Water Act. More than half of all industrial and municipal facilities across the country...

Pollution from Power Plants Far Beyond the Limit

Decrease in Cargo Ship Emissions
National environmental groups leaded by Attorney General Jerry Brown have taken into consideration the amount of pollution resulted from cargo ships and the significant contributing they bring to global warming thus demanding that the Bush administration address greenhouse-gas emissions and find a way to stop the pollution.Brown and the...

Decrease in Cargo Ship Emissions

Hugs Being Banned in a School near You
Hugging is no longer allowed in the Chicagoan area schools as many find it as being inappropriate. You would think that principals would have better things to do and other directions in which to point their benevolence but hugging, I mean isn’t that a bit too much. One example of schools in which such deviant behavior was noticed...

Hugs Being Banned in a School near You
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