Iraqi leaders are applauding President Obama’s plan to withdraw most U.S. troops from the country by August 2010.
New South Wales Department of Health says there is no good evidence that an outbreak of parasitic infection Cryptosporidiosis is from any of the pools it has investigated.
The Department has issued a health warning because of a higher number of cases than usual in February.
It has investigated 19 swimming pools, mainly in western Sydney.
For the [...]
Somali President Sharif Sheikh Hassan said Saturday he will give in to a rebel demand that he impose Islamic law, or sharia, in an effort to halt fighting between Somali forces and Islamic insurgents.
Army convoys are combing areas around the Bangladeshi border guard headquarters, vowing to punish participants in this week’s bloody mutiny, which killed nearly 100 army officers and civilians, according to The New Nation newspaper.
More than 200 food inspectors made a surprise inspection of all major meat wholesale markets in Beijing before 6:00 am on Feb 28, in a coordinated crackdown on contaminated meat products.
The municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce said the campaign was launched after a steroid was found in pork in Guangdong province. The drug was [...]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Health officials and food preservation experts are warning home canners to follow strict safety rules after a Spokane woman and two young children were sickened by botulism from improperly canned green beans from a home garden.
The Spokesman-Review reports the victims were a nurse in her 30s and two children younger than 10. [...]
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a decree on Saturday that sets an earlier date for the country’s presidential election, a move that could spark a constitutional crisis.
A team of medical experts successfully separated Egyptian twin boys Hassan and Mahmoud on Saturday — the 21st procedure of this type to be performed in the kingdom, the nation’s leading surgeon said.
BLAINE — When Billie Rector went to St. Joseph Hospital in mid-January complaining of nausea and wrenching stomach pain, doctors at first suspected his gallbladder.
When his 3-year-old daughter, Payton, was hospitalized a day later because of bloody diarrhea, doctors wondered if both family members might have been infected with E. coli.
It turned out that the [...]
Earlier this month, a Wilsonville boy put a face on the salmonella outbreak that has sickened scores nationwide.
Three-year-old Jacob Hurley sat, wearing a big-knotted tie in an angry congressional subcommittee meeting, as his father, Peter Hurley, testified about his son’s illness. Jacob was sick for 11 days with severe symptoms of salmonella infection after munching [...]