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Death, Disease and Dirty Water
World Economic Forum - There is a well-established link between dirty water and disease. The effects of climate change and natural resource degradation on local ecosystems are further shaping the patterns of waterborne infectious disease. What is the emerging scientific

Panel pushing use of baby vaccine
Globe and Mail - Langley, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at IWK Health Centre in Halifax, said the committee stopped short of calling for a government-funded universal vaccine program because it has not yet completed cost-effectiveness studies. In the

It’s back: Influenza season is in flu swing
Tribune-Chronicle - It’s official the flu season is on. “It’s definitely the start. We’re definitely in it,” said Dr. Roger Baxter, an infectious disease expert with Kaiser Permanente who heads the HMO’s flu-surveillance program. Over the past two weeks, reported

Bomb maker confesses to spray-painting swastikas around Brooklyn
New York Daily News - Michael Clatts, who specializes in the spread of infectious disease and was a prominent AIDS researcher in the 1980s. Investigators did not believe the 50-year-old was aware of the arsenal because he was away. Penny Kauffman, who has lived in the