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Mary Wolfman, the primary care physician on duty the night of July 3, organized the initial effort to prevent an outbreak of the disease, tracking down data on summer students threatened by the disease...
According to Ukrainian Program staffer Adele M. Marchinko, the outbreak should have been prevented...
...environmental laws, even when operating outside U.S. borders. As a corporate manager put it when he was deposed in 1994, "Our instruction was to run our plant based on...U.S. environmental standards." That may be true now, since many companies cleaned up their worst environmental excesses after the outbreak of fetal deformities, which ended as suddenly as it began. But internal corporate documents and previously unreported pretrial testimony obtained by CNN's Impact suggest that these corporations were using Mexico's border region as a private dumping ground...
...California, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee, also received the bad strawberries. Health officials in Los Angeles said up to 9,000 students and teachers who recently ate the berries would be offered protective gamma globulin shots, a treatment that is usually effective up to two weeks after exposure. The outbreak came during peak growing season in California, where 80 percent of the U.S. strawberry crop is grown, causing some worried suppliers to cancel orders. One grower said he lost $12,700 in canceled orders Wednesday...
...part been fueled by severe economic hardship since the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. Since that year, Russia has experienced a 70 percent rise in TB cases and a 90 percent increase in TB deaths. While Western Europe currently lies on the front of a bitter outbreak the disease, WHO officials warn that in the age of jet travel, the entire world may be at risk. "Everyone who breathes air, from Wall Street to the Great Wall of China, needs to worry about this risk," a WHO official said. To prevent this scenario, the organization made a pitch...