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Medical emergency to last three months in HaitiPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 The emergency medical period in Haiti will probably last another three months as many of the wounded will need regular care for some time, a leading US surgeon said Tuesday. The emergency phase will be "probably two to three months," said Chris Jobe, the head of orthopedic surgery at Loma Linda University of southern California. Volunteer doctors have treated thousands of people since the January 12 quake hit the Caribbean nation, many of them with severe crush wounds and broken limbs after they ... read more |
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HIV infections emerge long after China blood scandal: reportBeijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2010 At least 80 hospital patients in central China were infected with HIV through contaminated blood, according to a state media report that highlighted the continuing impact of a 1990s blood-selling scandal. The patients at the No. 2 Hospital in Hubei province's Daye city were infected after receiving transfusions of blood sold by several local residents who were later found to have HIV, the Wuhan Morning Post said on Wednesday. It said the blood-sellers were believed to have been infecte ... read more |
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Lagos, Nigeria (UPI) Jan 22, 2009 The power vacuum in Nigeria, one of Africa's leading oil producers, caused by the two-month absence of ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua is putting the all-important oil industry in jeopardy by delaying reforms and threatening to re-ignite an insurgency in the oil-rich south. Yar'Adua, who has a history of poor health, was flown to Saudi Arabia for hospitalization with a heart condition o ... more  
Berlin (AFP) Jan 22, 2010A leak in a uranium enrichment plant in Germany exposed an employee to a high level of radiation but posed no danger to people outside the facility, the firm operating the plant said on Friday. The employee was taken to hospital as a precaution, a spokeswoman for the German subsidiary of British nuclear firm Urenco said. None of the radiation escaped, the company added. "There is no ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 19, 2010Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Tuesday called up to 900 US Coast Guard reservists to duty to serve in Haiti following the devastating January 12 earthquake. President Barack Obama on Sunday issued an executive order authorizing the mobilization of military reserves to help quake-hit Haiti, particularly medical staff to work on hospital ships and Coast Guard sta ... more |
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Haiti tensions mount amid scramble for last survivorsPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 17, 2010 Rescuers pulled three survivors from the rubble Sunday five days after the Haiti earthquake, but tensions were growing among a desperate population as police opened fire on looters, killing one man. After hours of painstaking digging through the ruins, a team from Florida unearthed a seven-year-old girl, a man aged 34 and a 50-year-old woman in the ruins of a store as dawn broke in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Later hundreds of rioters ransacked Hyppolite market in the heart of the ... read more |
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