Craig Schneider of The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) will report tomorrow:
Rare strain of salmonella in rice snack hits children hardest
Most of what he reports has been reported before in the last few days. On fact dis catch my
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More on tackling urban transportation congestion … stick, or bus ticket?
As Americans return to their workplaces after the busiest travel weekend of the year, here are two updates, from opposite sides of the globe, on transportation topics that I wrote about last week. Environmental advocates are pushing…
Massive inoculation
August 24, 2006
HUNDREDS of students were yesterday inoculated to prevent an outbreak of hepatitis A at their school after a tuckshop lady tested positive to the virus.
A mother who volunteered at St Patrick’s College, Strathfield, on August 11…
School injections begin to prevent hep A
By Katelyn John
August 23, 2006
HEALTH chiefs will investigate a Sydney school tuckshop as a program to inject 300 students to guard against an outbreak of hepatitis A began today.
More than 100 students and 15 adults at St…
Hepatitis A scare hits Sydney school
22.aug.06
Yahoo News
http://au.news.yahoo.com/060822/2/108lf.html
About 300 students at a Sydney, Australia, school will be given preventative drugs after a tuck shop worker tested positive for hepatitis A.
NSW Health was cited as saying a clinic would be set up on…
New hepatitis A cases bring outbreak total to 12
The Chronicle Herald
August 22, 2006
Public health officials have discovered two new cases of hepatitis A connected to an outbreak in Lower Sackville.
That brings to 12 the number of people diagnosed with the virus since it first appeared…
There’s something in the water, and it’s not just fish
Fish tanks can harbour a gastric bug capable of causing illness serious enough for infected children to have to go to hospital, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian researchers proved the link between gastroenteritis and fish tanks by showing that…
Today’s question: How do you properly cook an alligator?
Jane Zhang of the Wall Street Journal reports that a public-health officer in Sydney, Australia, had an urgent question: A consumer found a black, shiny, 1.3-centimeter-long beetle with fine, short antennas and hairy legs in a sandwich. The plastic bag…
A New Breed of Global Superlawyers Traveling at 18,000 MPH
By Gerry Riskin
Follow me on a journey of logic — skip a decade to 2015 when air travel may dramatically increase in speed to 30,000 km per hour or 18,000 miles per hour — imagine a trip from Moscow to New York…
The CD Ain’t Dead Yet
A recent survey by the University of Western Sydney found that over two-thirds of “music lovers” preferred to buy original CDs from a store, even though pirated copies are extensively available on the Internet. The study involved 100 “baby boomers”…