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Bomb and anthrax hoax at Camden building – Philadelphia Inquirer

Bomb and anthrax hoax at Camden buildingPhiladelphia InquirerA mail clerk opened an envelope Friday morning to find a letter claiming a bomb was in the building and the white powder inside the envelope was anthrax, said Juan Matos, the U.S. marshal for New Jersey. The building was locked down and a K-9 unit …FBI probing Read More »

January 12, 2013
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Auto-Immune Disease Myasthenia Gravis: The Viral Route Is Confirmed

(Medical News Today) Why would our immune system turn against our own cells? This is the question that the combined Inserm/CNRS/ Pierre and Marie Curie University/Association Institut de Myologie have strived to answer in their “Therapies for diseases of striated muscle”, concentrating in particular on the auto-immune disease known as myasthenia gravis. Through the project Read More »

December 31, 2012
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UK Sees Spike in Norovirus Cases

There have been 3,538 laboratory confirmed Norovirus infections in the United Kingdom this fall and winter, according to new figures from the Health Protection Agency. This number marks an 83 percent increase from the number of cases recorded over the same time period last year, says the group. Almost 500 of this year’s cases occurred Read More »

December 31, 2012
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Emergency response report shows weak spots – Tulsa World

Emergency response report shows weak spotsTulsa WorldThe report is based on historical data that reflect the ability of states to respond to such calamities as a pandemic, bioterrorism event, or weather-related disaster. Cuts at all levels to public-health budgets were high on the list of problem areas …

December 29, 2012
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Emergency response report shows weak spots – Tulsa World

Emergency response report shows weak spotsTulsa WorldThe report is based on historical data that reflect the ability of states to respond to such calamities as a pandemic, bioterrorism event, or weather-related disaster. Cuts at all levels to public-health budgets were high on the list of problem areas …

December 29, 2012
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