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                    [Title] => Group urges gov’t to ban mothballs
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The government should remove naphthalene mothballs from the market after Bulgaria banned the product, an environment watchdog said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 943752 [Title] => Gonorrhea drifting toward cephalosporin resistance [Summary] =>

Neisseria gonorrhea strains are showing a worrisome drift in susceptibility to cephalosporins, causing experts to warn that the bacterium is only a step away from acquiring high-level resistance that would render ineffective the current first-line antimicrobials.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908740 [Title] => SARS-linked virus may have spread between people [Summary] =>

British officials say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans, as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who they say probably caught it from a family member.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-14 09:42:31 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1765/britaincoronavirusguti.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908494 [Title] => SARS-linked virus may have spread between people [Summary] =>

British officials say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans, as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who they say probably caught it from a family member.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-13 20:04:04 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 854219 [Title] => Animals suspected in spread of new virus [Summary] =>

Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might end up being implicated too.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-29 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 853886 [Title] => Animals suspected in spread of new virus [Summary] =>

Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might end up being implicated too.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-28 15:37:40 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 853013 [Title] => Virus advisory issued to OFWs in Saudi, Qatar [Summary] =>

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) based in Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been advised to observe proper hygiene to avoid contracting a new flu strain similar to the potentially fatal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1725462 [AuthorName] => Rudy Santos [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img18/5938/sfthumbv.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 852770 [Title] => New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East [Summary] =>

The World Health Organization said Monday it is too soon to say whether there could be an outbreak of a SARS-like killer respiratory disease after health officials in Britain announced they detected a related virus in a severely ill patient from the Middle East.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 825019 [Title] => What is polonium-210 and how can it kill? [Summary] =>

Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-06 04:04:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 689346 [Title] => AIDS-plagued province to cooperate with UK on epidemic prevention [Summary] =>

Authorities in central China's Henan Province said it would collaborate with the UK HPA (Health Protection Agency) and Birmingham Heartlands Hospital in a joint battle against AIDS.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-25 13:52:08 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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