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Food poisonings up from raw milk, poultry bacteria

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 18th

By MIKE STOBBEAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Bacteria commonly linked to raw milk and poultry is causing more and more food poisonings, health officials said Thursday. Cases of campylobacter grew by 14 percent over the last five years, a government study found. The Centers for Disease Control

EPA: More than half of streams in 'poor' shape

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 26th

By DINA CAPPIELLOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - More than half of the country's rivers and streams are in poor biological health, unable to support healthy populations of aquatic insects and other creatures, according to a new nationwide survey released Tuesday. The Environmental Protection

Scientists test skeletons for Black Death bacteria

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 15th

LONDON (AP) - Scientists digging a new railway in London have uncovered 13 skeletons that will be tested to see if they died from the Black Death plague in the 14th century. The lead archaeologist of the Crossrail project, Jay Carver, says the location of the bodies and historical records suggest

Officials alarmed by increasing superbug reports

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 5th

By MIKE STOBBEAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Health officials are reporting an alarming increase in some dangerous superbugs at U.S. hospitals. These superbugs from a common germ family have become extremely resistant to treatment with antibiotics. Only 10 years ago, such resistance was hardly

Power failure blamed in New Orleans water issues

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 3rd

By JANET McCONNAUGHEYAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Taps in New Orleans briefly went dry Sunday after a boiler's heating flame went out of control in the immense steam generator that powers pumps for the city's water treatment plant. Marcia St. Martin, executive director of the city

Dust from Africa affects snowfall in California

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 28th

By ALICIA CHANGAP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - One of the driest spots on Earth - the Sahara desert - is increasingly responsible for snow and rain half a world away in the western U.S., a new study released Thursday found. It's no secret that winds carrying dust, soot and even germs make

Dust from Africa affects snowfall in California

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 28th

CDC: 11 biolab workers infected from 2004-10

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 15th

By DAVID DISHNEAUAssociated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - At least 11 workers at U.S. biological laboratories were infected with dangerous pathogens from 2004 to 2010, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a report on security measures stemming from the deadly 2001

CDC: 11 biolab workers infected from 2004-10

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 15th

Severe Beijing smog prompts unusual transparency

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 14th

By GILLIAN WONG and CHRISTOPHER BODEENAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) - One of Beijing's worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals, but this time something was different about the murky haze: the government's transparency in talking