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Water & Food Safety

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 8 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Health)

The maize (corn) genome sequence is now complete.Iowa State University (ISU) Plant Sciences Institute (PSI) researchers developed methods for the assembly of sequence data and conducted much of the ongoing functional analysis work as part of a multi-institutional, ... [Agriculture Online - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Genome, Corn, Population Genetics, Iowa State University, Gene Expression

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 16 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Health)

Ciggies contaminated with disease causing bacteria

An international study has found cigarettes are 'widely contaminated' with bacteria, including some which can cause diseases.A University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France conducted ... [Times of India - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Bacteria, Microorganism, University of Maryland, Pathogen, Infectious

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Health)

Procter & Gamble Co

Health scare: Vicks recalls nasal sprays amid bacteria fears

VICKS nasal sprays in Britain were being recalled tonight in their thousands amid fears they could pose a health risk by containing a dangerous bacteria.Routine testing in Germany showed the Vicks spray could contain the bacteria B. cepacia, which can ... [Daily Express - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Bacteria, Procter & Gamble Co, Germany

First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Cholera in PNGs East Sepik reaches critical stage.

Main navigation list Current Location in Site RNZI Cholera in PNGs East Sepik reaches critical stagePosted at 03:58 on 20 November, 2009 UTCHealth officials in Papua New Guineas East Sepik Province say the spread of cholera has reached a critical ... [Radio New Zealand International - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Cholera, Tonga, Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Radio New Zealand

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Health Directorate exceeds polio immunisation target

The Gomoa West District Health Directorate has exceeded itstarget in Oral Polio Vail and Post-partum (OPV) vitamin Asupplement administration, during the integrated maternaland child health exercise that spanned November 12-14.Ms Gifty Ankrah District ... [Ghana Review International - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Polio, Apam (Ghana), Supplement

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

CO: Many Colorado water waivers revoked after taint

Alamosa's salmonella bout prompts a stricter stance on chlorination.The Denver PostPosted: 11/19/2009 01:00:00 AM MSTUpdated: 11/19/2009 05:58:40 AM MSTColorado has revoked waivers from as many as 72 public drinking-water systems and is now requiring ... [Stateline - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Chlorination, Waiver, Salmonella, Bacteria, Chlorine

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

U.S. stops Canadian canola meal imports due to salmonella

EDMONTON - The United States has stopped canola meal shipments from five Canadian plants at the border over concerns about potentially dangerous salmonella bacteria.And prairie farmers are calling on the federal government to help sort out the situation ... [CNEWS - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Salmonella, Cargill Ltd., United States

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Central government invests over 3 bln yuan on cultural projects in 2009

According to Ministry of Culture, central government will invest 3.06 billion yuan on local cultural projects in 2009, an increase of 892 million yuan and 41.16 percent compared to last year. These cultural projects will benefit rural residents with essential ... [People's Daily Online - 11/19/2009]

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Health)

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 transmission study, Egypt H5N1 case, Cape Verde dengue cases, Colorado Salmonella outbreak cause

Study: H5N1 needs double mutation to gain human transmissibilityA team of British and American researchers say their experiments suggest that the H5N1 avian influenza virus would have to undergo at least two simultaneous mutations to gain the ability ... [Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Influenza A H5N1 Virus, Cape Verde, Dengue Fever, Salmonella

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Health)

Chicken fever hits parliament

The talk of Parliament today has not been Hone Harawira's future, John Key's boycott of the Dalai Lama, or Phil Goff ending the 20-year consensus on monetary policy.What has the whole complex in a frenzy is a chicken on the loose - one I have just captured ... [New Zealand Herald - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Phil Goff, John Key, Timothy Leary, Heather Roy, Oliver North

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

In GreenwoodPhinney: Backyard chickens rule Seattle roosts

When I moved to Greenwood at the beginning of 2008, the last sound I expected to hear was the clucking of chickens next door. I live close to Aurora Ave N, an area more often associated with prostitution and drug dealing than roaming free-range chickens. ... [Seattle Post Intelligencer - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Seattle, Feathering, Prostitution

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Health)

Holistic Food Poisoning Treatment Assists Your Body

The typical symptoms of food poisoning is vomiting and diarrhea at the same time. Unpleasant as this is, it is a natural purging of something that is upsetting your body badly. It needs to come out.If you take a medication that stops the vomiting and ... [AsiaNetIndia.com - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Food Poisoning, Immune System, Pathogen

Quotes

"But we have managed to contain the outbreak in Terengganu, so I would not consider it an epidemic" he said after chairing the eighth national food safety and nutrition council meeting at his ministry yesterday

Cholera: Poor hygiene blamed [New Straits Times - 7 hours ago]

...It also equips researchers with an important model for understanding the biology of dedicated biofuel grasses. "The real value of a sequenced genome is that it provides us with a reference from which to assess whether naturally occurring sequence variability among individuals is responsible for differing abilities to adapt to environments. Once we recognize and understand these patterns, we will have the ability to rapidly develop diverse maize hybrids that can fit the management practices and environmental scope that corn producers experience" says William Beavis, George F Sprague Endowed Chair of Population Genetics and interim director of ISU's Plant Sciences Institute

Scientists complete corn genome [Agriculture Online - 8 hours ago]

A statement issued by the company said: "P&G detected this problem during routine quality control at the plant and promptly took action. The company's analysis to date shows this problem is limited to a single batch of raw material mixture involving three lots of product. These three lots were sold only in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom."

Vicks Sprays Recalled Over Bacteria Fears [Build.co.uk - 10 hours ago]

A resident of Unguwar Gwange, one of the areas ravaged by cholera, said, "We have no good source of clean water and the government is supposed to hurriedly address this issue, considering the outbreak, and should also do a robust awareness campaign" . In his take, the Commissioner of Health, Alhaji Zubairu Maina, said, 'The state government has sufficient drugs and personnel that will take good care...

Cholera Kills Twenty in Borno, 2000 Infected [AllAfrica.com - 14 hours ago]

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Comment: From fringe to electromicrobiological ... [Science News Online - 1 hour ago]
Bacteria prompts nasal spray recall in U.S., Eu... [CNN - 3 hours ago]
Cholera in PNGs East Sepik reaches critical stage. [Radio New Zealand International - 5 hours ago]
Cholera Spreads To East Sepik [Topnews.in - 6 hours ago]
Cholera: Poor hygiene blamed [New Straits Times - 7 hours ago]
Service Smoked Fish Corp. Recalls Smoked Nova S... [U.S. Food and Drug Administration - 7 hours ago]
Smoked Salmon Recalled For Listeria [OfficialWire - 8 hours ago]
Scientists complete corn genome [Agriculture Online - 8 hours ago]
Health scare: Vicks recalls nasal sprays amid b... [Daily Express - 8 hours ago]
Scientists sequence entire genome of corn [SmartBrief - 9 hours ago]
Smoked salmon recalled for Listeria [UPI - 9 hours ago]
Editorial: Right response on public water [Denver Post - 10 hours ago]
Vicks Sprays Recalled Over Bacteria Fears [Build.co.uk - 10 hours ago]
Cholera Kills Twenty in Borno, 2000 Infected [AllAfrica.com - 14 hours ago]
Vicks nasal spray recall over bacteria fears [Times Online - 16 hours ago]
Ciggies contaminated with disease causing bacteria [Times of India - 16 hours ago]
Health Directorate exceeds polio immunisation t... [Ghana Review International - 17 hours ago]
Chicken fever hits parliament [New Zealand Herald - 17 hours ago]
Gomoa West Health Directorate exceeds polio imm... [GhanaHomePage - 17 hours ago]
Society for General Microbiology: Bacteria 'lau... [NewsRX - 18 hours ago]
Holistic Food Poisoning Treatment Assists Your ... [AsiaNetIndia.com - 18 hours ago]
Mouth rinse with certain bacteria can prevent c... [MyEGov Taiwan - 19 hours ago]
Cigarettes are widely contaminated with bacteri... [News-Medical.Net - 20 hours ago]
Jiangsu-Zhejiang Drunken Chicken [CHINAdaily - 21 hours ago]
NEWS SCAN: H5N1 transmission study, Egypt H5N1 ... [Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - 23 hours ago]
Newly discovered bacteria found in cigarettes [EMax Health - 23 hours ago]
City study on oral polio vaccine brings change ... [Indian Express - 11/20/2009]
Amaizing: Corn genome decoded [EurekAlert! - 11/19/2009]
Corn genome sequenced; given away to farmers, s... [USA Today - 11/19/2009]
Overlooked cures for diarrhoea [IRIN - 11/19/2009]

Blogs

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Glowing bacteria that finds landmines [Boing Boing - 12 hours ago] Edinburgh University engineers have a plan to use genetically engineered bacteria that glow in the presence of explosives to detect landmines. The project is student-led, ...
Picture - Bacteria Talking - In Color [Scientific Blogging - 11/17/2009] Bacteria are abundant in soil, water, and air as well as in the depths of the Earth's crust, organic matter, and live animals or plants. They are also abundantly ...
Food poisoning ills not just short-term. Report... [MedBlog - 11/13/2009] Everybody fears food poisoning for the acute illness it causes - nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps. CDC But according to a new report, what most ...
Indonesia: More B2B H5N1 outbreaks [H5N1 - 11/11/2009] Via Bird Flu Information Corner, a couple of reports of poultry outbreaks. Here's one of them, from a news source called HuPelita: Lebak, Banten ::: Bird flu outbreak ...
Anne Mai Bertelsen: Parents: Vaccinate Your Chi... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/10/2009] I’m baffled. Utterly. Last week, New York City began vaccinating elementary school children against the H1N1 virus. The vaccine is optional but free; ...

Audio/Video

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Is Your Chicken Safe From Salmonella [ABC News Video: Health - 11/11/2009]
2009-11-07 The secret life of bacteria - small,... [Mefeedia Video Tag : geneti - 11/06/2009]
Dirty Beef [Slate Magazine - 11/06/2009]
Salmonella Linked to Pet Turtles [ABC News Video: Health - 10/20/2009]
How To Kill Bacteria On Your Toothbrush [MSN Video: What's Hot - 08/05/2009]

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