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Lead Poisoning Still a Threat as New Rules Take Effect
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(April 21) -- While federal officials had hoped to eradicate childhood lead poisoning by 2010, health experts now say it could be years before American kids are completely risk-free. Lead continues to pose a threat in poorer urban areas, where older homes are coated in lead-based paint that's now deteriorating, exposing residents to dust tainted with the toxin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which had set the 2010 goal, wants to see tougher laws and more effective enforcement to minimize the presence of lead in American homes, schools, day care centers and other buildings ...
Disease Center: Up To 17,000 Americans Killed by Swine Flu
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe H1N1 virus, known as "swine flu," has killed as many as 17,000 Americans, including up to 1,800 children, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said that between 41 million and 84 million cases of H1N1 occurred during the 2009 pandemic, Reuters reported. Children and younger adults were most seriously affected, researchers said. From April 2009 to January of this year, between 183,000 and 378,000 people were hospitalized with swine flu, the CDC estimated. Globally, accurate estimates of swine flu infection are hard to come by. The CDC and ...
Household Toxics Reach Babies Even in Womb
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- It is one of the worst nightmares for a mother-to-be: She's poisoning the baby in her belly, and there is little she can do about it. Now new research out Tuesday has put hard numbers to those fears, showing that chemicals from everyday products contaminate women's bodies, and that their children enter the world already exposed to known toxics. Nine women from California, Oregon and Washington participated in the first-of-its-kind study and had blood and urine samples taken during their second trimester of pregnancy. Handout Kim Radtke and Amy Ellings, two mothers who took ...
Tainted Burgers: Plenty to Chew On
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyHow should the government react to evidence that it is not properly protecting its citizens against outbreaks of E. coli? To start, the U.S. may wish to review how the United Kingdom responded to an outbreak of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalophy, or BSE) more than a decade ago. ...
World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level to Phase 5
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAmid calls for calm and simple precautions, the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5 late yesterday, one shy of the most serious phase, a full-blown pandemic:"It really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic," Margaret Chan, WHO's director general, said in Geneva. "We do not have all the answers right now, but we will get them." It was the first time that WHO has declared a Phase 5 outbreak, the second-highest on its threat scale, indicating that a pandemic could be imminent.While the death toll in Mexico rose by 1, to 160, reports of new ...
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