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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2009 
More than 200 people fell ill Wednesday in an ammonia gas leak at a pharmaceutical plant in northern China, state media reported.
The leak occurred at 9:40 am (0140 GMT) when a tanker truck was unloading 30 tonnes of liquid ammonia at the plant in Chifeng city, in Inner Mongolia, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the local district government.
Twenty-one people were hospitalised and 18 ... read more 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 4, 2009Russia will boost monitoring at its border with China following an outbreak of pneumonic plague in a neighboring north-western region, Russia's top sanitary doctor said Monday. "Control over people crossing this border will be stepped up, including both Chinese and Russian nationals," Gennady Onishchenko said as quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency, adding that the region was fairly remote ... more
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Tripoli (AFP) July 30, 2009Libya and Canada have signed a memorandum of intent on nuclear power, the fourth signed by Tripoli in the past two years, an official said on Thursday. The memorandum foresees cooperation between the two countries in research and the mining, processing and transport of uranium, as well as its use in medicine and desalination projects. Since July 2007, Libya has signed another three ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 29, 2009Pregnant women who contract swine flu are four times more likely to develop severe illness that requires hospitalization than other people infected with the virus, a US study showed Wednesday. They are also more likely to die of swine flu or even seasonal flu, and yet only 15 percent of pregnant women in the United States follow the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 29, 2009Biomedical researchers on Wednesday said they could explain why we swing our arms when we walk, a practice that has long piqued scientific curiosity. Swinging one's arms comes at a cost. We need muscles to do it, and we need to provide energy in the form of food for those muscles. So what's the advantage? Little or none, some experts have said, contending that arm-swinging, like our appe ... more |
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Baghdad (AFP) July 17, 2009Sitting in an emergency room, Saadi Ibrahim held an oxygen mask up to his face, his voice barely rising above a whisper, the casualty of Iraq's latest scourge -- sandstorms. "I cannot stand these sandstorms, I cannot breathe," the 46-year-old said in central Baghdad's Ibn Nafis hospital. Since the onset of summer, such storms have struck Iraq on a near-daily basis, making day-to-day life ... more 
Melbourne (AFP) July 15, 2009Australia's swine flu cases topped 10,000 Wednesday as officials in the worst-hit Asia-Pacific country reported two more deaths and warned the virus "preferred young people." Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the national tally was now 10,387, more than 10 percent of the global total confirmed by the World Health Organization with 123 people in hospital. South Australia and Queensland ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 15, 2009The 105-day space travel simulation experiment 'Mars 500', based in Moscow with German involvement, has just finished. On 14 July 2009, the crew, including Oliver Knickel, a member of the German Army, left the module system at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The six people taking part in the experiment will be subjected to a rigorous series ... more |
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