A group of students and teachers from a Maryland private school have been quarantined in China because of swine flu concerns, a school spokeswoman said Thursday.
NEBRASKA: 76 cases of salmonella confirmed in sprout recall – (Associated Press)LINCOLN, Neb. — Health officials have confirmed at least 76 cases of salmonella in four states as part of an outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts….NEBRASKA: Salmonella outbreak traced to Neb. alfalfa sprouts – (Associated Press)OMAHA, Neb. — State health officials say a recent outbreak of salmonella in eastern Nebraska has been traced to locally grown alfalfa sprouts.
A…NEBRASKA: Neb. maker of alfalfa sprouts linked to salmonella outbreak defends products, safety practices – (Associated Press)OMAHA, Neb. — The company that recalled alfalfa sprouts earlier this week after they were linked to a recent outbreak of salmonella in Nebraska …SOUTH DAKOTA reports more cases in latest salmonella outbreak – (Argus Leader)South Dakota health [...]
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- Market bombs kill two, injure 70, in Pakistan
Back-to-back explosions shook two markets in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday evening, killing two civilians and wounding 70 others, an official from t...
- Chinese police slay five in shootout
Police in western China shot and killed five members of a group planning a “holy war” against Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in Chi...
- Pupils poisoned in EAST CHINA school canteen leave hospital – (ENGLISH NEWS SERVICE)
NANJING — All of the 83 pupils hospitalized by food poisoning in a school canteen in east China a week ago have been discharged, and most of the...
- CHINA: 90 pupils hospitalized for food poisoning – (Xinhua News Agency)
HOHHOT — About 90 pupils from a boarding school in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have been sent to hospital after eating ...
- Thousands feared dead in China quake
A massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 8,500 people in China and left hundreds trapped under rubble, state run media report. Some 900 stu...
- U.S.-China relations in focus at ‘G-2′ summit
If money is power, China is now in a powerful position to play a critical role at the Group of 20 summit in London.
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- China boosts rescue operations
A frightened schoolgirl was pulled safely from the rubble of a school dormitory Wednesday evening — 50 hours after she was buried by Monday̵...
- Incorporation of music in a food service food safety curriculum for High School students – (International Association for Food Protection)
SUMMARY
Food safety music parodies were incorporated into a nine-lesson foodservice food safety curriculum for high school students. Nine song parodie...
- Children killed as China quake collapses schools
At least five people were killed, four of the them children, and 100 hurt after an earthquake shook two primary school buildings to the ground and col...
- China: 107 dead, 900 students buried in quake
At least 107 people died in a major earthquake that rocked central China on Monday — but the total does not include any of the nearly 900 studen...
- China tops world in Internet users
China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world’s top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.
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- 43 students sickened in S. CHINA – (Xinhua News Agency)
HAIKOU — More than 40 teenagers showed symptoms of diarrhea or vomiting at a school in Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province, b...
- CHINA: Report and analysis of a scarlet fever outbreak among adults through food-borne transmission in China – (Journal of Infection, Nov2007, Vol. 55 Issue 5, p419-424, 6p;)
Summary: Background: Scarlet fever is caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococci (GAS). The clinical syndrome has receded in recent years, but occa...
- CHINA’s quality watchdog finds pathogenic bacteria in imported salmon – (China View)
BEIJING — China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ) was cited as saying on its website Fri...
- Rights group: Tibetan monk sets self on fire
A monk carrying a Tibetan national flag and shouting slogans set himself on fire in south-central China on Friday and then was shot at by police, a hu...
- Tibet group: Prince to boycott Games
Britain’s Prince Charles will not attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in solidarity with a group that campaigns a...
- Carbon monoxide kills 11 Chinese schoolgirls
Eleven schoolgirls in northwest China’s Shaanxi province died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they used a school-provided charcoal heater t...
- CHINA: Undercooked kidney beans sicken 248 Students – (CRI Online)
A Fuyuan County government spokesman was cited as saying Friday that a food-poisoning outbreak at a school in southwest China’s Yunnan Province ...
- BLOG: School loos shouldn’t be bog standard – (Guardian Unlimited)
According to the British Cleaning Council, pupils are avoiding school toilets for fear of being attacked by bullies.
They warned yesterday that many l...
- School collapses from China quake stir anger
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