 Plague Information - September 6, 2008
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Salt Lake City, UT (AHN)-A campground at Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah has been closed because of bubonic plague detected among field mice and chipmunks |
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Skeptics believe that panic caused by the Bird flu is spreading at a faster rate than the flu itself. There is no evidence that the flu will become a pandemic. But the frenzy is diverting both money and attention away from more important health threats, says MSNBC |
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Los Angeles, CA (AHN)-Health officials say a woman who was hospitalized earlier this month with bubonic plague is the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County in more than two decades |
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A bird flu outbreak among humans could claim 320,000 lives in the UK. Proper burial or cremation of the disease victims could take four months or more, according to a worst-case contingency plan written by the UK home office. As many as 320,000 people could die from the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus if it mutated into a form that could easily be passed among humans, according to reports |
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Plagued by high unemployment and a shaky economy, Germany is seeing one of its lowest birth rates in years, taking the country to almost the bottom of the world's birth rate ranking. German political leaders have vowed to push through new policies to encourage Germans to have more children, to stop this trend from growing |
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