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Legionnaires’ Disease, Pontiac Fever Up
ATLANTA, Aug. 19 (UPI) — The number of legionellosis cases reported each year more than tripled from 2000 to 2009 from 1,110 cases to 3,522 cases, U.S. health officials report. Legionellosis refers to Legionnaires’ disease, also known as “Legion Fever,” which is the more severe form of the infection and produces pneumonia and Pontiac fever, […]
Legionnaires' Disease, Pontiac Fever Up
ATLANTA, Aug. 19 (UPI) — The number of legionellosis cases reported each year more than tripled from 2000 to 2009 from 1,110 cases to 3,522 cases, U.S. health officials report. Legionellosis refers to Legionnaires’ disease, also known as “Legion Fever,” which is the more severe form of the infection and produces pneumonia and Pontiac fever, […]
Milk Better Than H2O For Child Dehydration
HAMILTON, Ontario, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Milk is a more effective way of countering dehydration in children than a sports drink or water, researchers at McMaster University in Ontario say. Principal investigator Brian Timmons, research director of the Child Health and Exercise Medicine Program at McMaster University, says milk replaces sodium lost in sweat and […]
Prunes Exceptional In Preventing Fractures
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 18 (UPI) — Dried plums, or prunes, improve bone health in people of all ages, but may be most helpful for post-menopausal women, U.S. researchers say. Bahram H. Arjmandi of Florida State University and colleagues at Oklahoma State University tested two groups of post-menopausal women over a 12-month period. The first group, […]
Troubled U.K. Faces Debt 'triple Whammy'
LONDON, Aug. 19 (UPI) — Britain faces a “triple whammy” of sagging business confidence, inflation and unemployment that will deepen the debt burden, analyst said. Debt solutions expert Atlantic Financial Management said the latest British data reinforced the gloomy outlook because of increased state benefit handouts to those without jobs, an inflationary spiral and continued […]
Troubled U.K. Faces Debt ‘triple Whammy’
LONDON, Aug. 19 (UPI) — Britain faces a “triple whammy” of sagging business confidence, inflation and unemployment that will deepen the debt burden, analyst said. Debt solutions expert Atlantic Financial Management said the latest British data reinforced the gloomy outlook because of increased state benefit handouts to those without jobs, an inflationary spiral and continued […]
Panetta: U.S. Troops In Iraq Beyond 2011
WASHINGTON, Ill., Aug. 19 (UPI) — Iraq has agreed to allow non-combat U.S. forces to remain in the country beyond the end of 2011, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday. All U.S. forces had been scheduled to leave Iraq by Dec. 31 and Panetta said the drawdown is progressing on schedule. When he visited […]
Teen Says She Was Forced Into Prostitution
DETROIT, Aug. 19 (UPI) — A teenager described weeks of working as a prostitute, beaten and raped over and over, during a hearing for a Detroit man charged with sexual trafficking. The girl, now 15, testified that Sedrick Leman-Isaac Mitchell, 32, picked her up when she was a 14-year-old runaway, The Detroit News reported. Mitchell, […]
Teens, Boy Sentenced For Flash Mob Attack
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19 (UPI) — Two Philadelphia teens have been given custodial sentences and an 11-year-old house arrest for participating in an attack by a violent “flash mob.” A judge scolded the three as they were sentenced Thursday, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. All pleaded guilty as juveniles to assault, robbery and rioting. “Downtown is not […]
Critics: Toronto Strip Searches Arbitrary
TORONTO, Aug. 19 (UPI) — Critics say Toronto police conduct too many strip searches, often without just cause. Such searches were conducted on 31,072 people in 2010 — or in 44 percent of arrests, the Toronto Police Association says, CBC News reported. “I think the numbers are speaking for themselves. They’re too high,” said Heather […]
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