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Medbroadcast: 03-06-2006
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Two or three cats have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Austrian state authorities said Monday.
The cats, all of which were still alive, have tested positive for the disease, said Hans Seitinger, the top agriculture official in Styria state.
TORONTO (CP) - Many Canadian two-year-olds may be behind in their vaccination schedules, even though the tots are seen by their doctors on a regular basis, an Ontario study suggests.
(CP) - How do you devise a how-to guide for stopping a flu pandemic that will be flexible enough that it might have a shot at working in remote Indonesia as well as small-town Indiana - and everywhere in between?
How many international experts do you send? How many local public
BAR HARBOR, Me. (AP) - When it comes to the price of mice, you pay extra for defects. A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250.
WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba's NDP government begins a new legislature sitting Monday with a stay-the-course budget that will include small tax cuts.
LONDON (AP) - The number of overweight children worldwide will increase significantly by the end of the decade, and scientists expect profound impacts on everything from public health care to economies, a study published Monday said.
(AP) - Officials of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Friday the company will reverse its earlier policy and stock emergency contraception pills in all of its U.S.
VANCOUVER (CP) - Developing countries are poaching nurses from AIDS-ravaged Africa where the caregivers also counsel women who face violence from a spouse who may have infected them, the UN's special envoy for HIV-AIDS in Africa
Stephen Lewis told a convention of the B.C.
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