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New bird-flu threat emerges
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
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Full Story here: The Standard - Hong Kong’s First FREE English Newspaper
New bird-flu threat emerges
(12-09 18:20)
Three dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, an official said.
Hong Kong finds melamine in baby cereal, crackers
Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Hong Kong finds melamine in baby cereal, crackers | The Jakarta Post
The Hong Kong government said Friday it has found traces of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese-made crackers and Heinz baby cereal.The chemical was found in Heinz DHA AA Vegetable Formula Cereal and in Silang House-brand steamed potato wasabi crackers produced by Kam Tai Co., the Center for Food Safety said.
Both were manufactured in mainland China, it said in a statement.
White Rabbit candy recalled
Friday, September 26th, 2008
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White Rabbit candy recalled | guampdn.com | Pacific Daily News
China-made White Rabbit candy, which has been on the shelves of some of Guam’s stores, shouldn’t be eaten, the Department of Public Health and Social Services warned yesterday.
: U.S. beef goes on sale in South Korea
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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TheStar.com | World | U.S. beef goes on sale in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea – U.S. beef returned to South Korean store shelves Tuesday under a new import agreement that has failed to stem anti-government protests, which have raged for weeks and turned central Seoul into a riot zone.
The government said it would take tough action to stop the increasingly violent rallies, which began two months ago with schoolgirls holding candlelight vigils. But the protests have lately also seen club-wielding demonstrators trying to break through barricades of police buses under showers of water cannons.
Mass intestinal virus infection kills 19 children
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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Mass intestinal virus infection kills 19 children
HEFEI — A total of 19 children have died and more than 700 others fallen ill because of an outbreak of a lethal intestinal virus in Fuyang City, Anhui Province, since March.The virus has been identified as enterovirus 71 or EV 71, according to the health department of Fuyang City.
Yao Ming puts faith in traditional medicine
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Yao puts faith in traditional medicine
Yao puts faith in traditional medicineChina’s NBA sensation Yao Ming believes traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) could help speed up the recovery of his foot injury.
The 2.28-m all-star center arrived in Beijing on Thursday night and will undergo a series of TCM examinations in Beijing in the coming two weeks before returning to the US for further rehabilitation.
In the rest of the civilized world, an economic collapse doesn’t also involve losing health benefits
Monday, March 17th, 2008
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just finished reading the excellent diaries by bonddad and Jerome a Paris. Please forgive my random and panicked thoughts. But I am panicked just like all of us.One huge thought is circulating through my brain. And I’m sorry to say this. We Americans are not very lucky. If we lived in any other industrialized nation, we would not need to add to all the other crises bearing down on us, how to come up with the scratch to pay for healthcare.
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