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Medbroadcast: 10-22-2004
GENEVA (AP) - Ireland - like the United States - is struggling to find enough flu vaccine following the shutdown of a British factory, but other European countries mostly have no shortages, an Associated Press survey found Thursday.
PARIS (AP) - A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
MONTREAL (CP) - An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec Wednesday as an 'epidemic' that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Faced with a deadly C. difficile epidemic in Quebec, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday it will begin tracking the bacterium in 25 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
TORONTO (CP) - The decision by a team of U.S. researchers to ease bio-security precautions for a reconstituted version of the 1918 pandemic flu virus - the most lethal killing machine in viral history - is sparking debate within the international scientific community.
TORONTO (CP) - Refrigerating or freezing expressed breast milk, a practice many women use when returning to the workforce after maternity leave, lowers its antioxidant content, a new study has found.
HALIFAX (CP) - MedMira Inc.'s new rapid HIV test has been approved for use at Canadian clinics by Health Canada, the Halifax company said Thursday.
The test detects HIV antibodies in human serum or plasma.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Northern Ireland's largest food-processing company, Moy Park Ltd., pledged Thursday to discover how a potentially cancer-causing drug ended up in up to 23 tonnes of its free-range chickens.
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