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Parents want school to close temporarily
Herald-Mail - A parent of three children who attend C.W. Shipley School, where students have repeatedly been getting sick from strep throat, said Wednesday she is circulating a petition among parents asking that the school be shut down to allow students to recover

New front developing in war on killer bugs
Boston Globe - (Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in yesterday’s Business & Innovation section incorrectly characterized estimates associated with a new drug to combat Staphylococcus aureus in the bloodstream. Cubist Pharmaceuticals estimates the US

Health Health Archives
Georgia Straight - If two dozen once-jittery mice at UBC are telling the truth postmortem, the world s governments may soon be facing one hell of a lawsuit. New, so-far-unpublished research led by Vancouver neuroscientist Chris Shaw shows a link between the aluminum

Businesses brace for bird flu
Greenwich Time - As China, the Czech Republic and other countries battle cases of avian flu, staff at the Norwalk office of global risk and insurance services firm Marsh are alerting corporate clients to prepare for an outbreak here. Scientists fear that birds

Taft approves revised state emergency operations plan
Knox Pages - Governor Bob Taft today announced that he has approved the 2006 edition of Ohio s Emergency Operations Plan, a framework state and local agencies follow in response to a major disaster or terrorist attack. Whether in response to a natural or

New evidence questions the simple link between prion proteins and vCJD
EurekAlert - Research news from the Journal of Pathology While newly published research confirms that under laboratory circumstances prion-protein can be absorbed across the gut, it also shows that this is unlikely to occur in real life. In addition, the results