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Snack time leaves 87 toddlers in hospital in ChinaBeijing (AFP) Sept 4, 2010 A total of 87 children had to be hospitalised after eating yoghurt at a kindergarten in northwest China, state media reported Saturday, as local officials called for better food safety supervision. Teachers reported the children, aged three to five, at the school in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, suffered fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach problems on Friday afternoon, the official Xinhua news agency said. Forty of the 87 hospitalised children were well enough to be discharged from ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2010Scientists have published the first report on a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers from migrating from one of the most widely used groups of plastics. The advance could lead to a new generation of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics that are safer than those now used in packaging, medical tubing, toys, and other products, they say. Their study is in ACS' Macromolecules, a ... more  
Kabul, Afghanistan (UPI) Aug 12, 2010 A recently released U.N. report states that 1,271 Afghans died and 1,997 were injured in the first six months of this year. Three-quarters of these casualties were caused by Taliban forces, mostly from roadside bombings. The Taliban has also continued its practice of carrying out brutal atrocities against civilians. They claimed responsibility for killing members of a civilian medical t ... more  
Zhouqu, China (AFP) Aug 12, 2010Heavy rains on Thursday compounded the misery of a Chinese town devastated by mudslides that have killed 1,144 people, with new floods hampering relief efforts and the stench of death pervasive. Thousands of soldiers and rescuers battled to clear roads blocked by cascades of mud and sludge unleashed by storms overnight, complicating the task of getting food, water and medicine to people in d ... more |
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China gold mine fire kills 16 workersBeijing (AFP) Aug 7, 2010 Sixteen workers died when a fire broke out in a gold mine in east China, state media reported Saturday, in the latest accident to hit the nation's notoriously dangerous mining sector this week. Most of the victims died of toxic smoke inhalation underground or in hospital after the accident, which happened on Friday in Shandong province's Zhaoyuan city, the official Xinhua news agency said. More than 300 miners had been working underground when the blaze started and most were lifted to ground lev ... read more |
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