09/04/2001 |
EBOLA SCARE KEEPS KENYAN TOWN IN SUSPENSE
By Matthew Green
NYERI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan health workers said on Tuesday they were on alert for an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus as officials investigated what might be the country's first recorded case of the killer disease.
Hospital staff called a team of government researchers to investigate after a woman died in the central town of Nyeri last week from a feverish illness with symptoms reminiscent of ebola.
``We are still crossing our fingers that we are not dealing with Ebola (news - web sites), but we may be proved wrong,'' said a source close to the investigation in Nyeri in Kenya's highlands.
``You pray she died ...
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08/04/2001 |
IRELAND SAYS NO DOWN'S SYNDROME LINK TO SELLAFIELD
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's nuclear protection body said on Tuesday it accepted a report that concluded a cluster of Down's syndrome births in the republic in the 1960s and 1970s were not linked to Britain's Sellafield reactor.
The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland said there was no link between the cluster and a fire at Sellafield, then called Windscale, in 1957, but added it still had serious worries about the plant on Britain's northwest coast.
``Ireland's objections to Sellafield are solidly based on the continuing radioactive contamination of the Irish Sea, and most of all on the risk to this country of serious conseque ...
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08/04/2001 |
EBOLA SCARE KEEPS KENYAN TOWN IN SUSPENSE
By Matthew Green
NYERI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan health workers said on Tuesday they were on alert for an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus as officials investigated what might be the country's first recorded case of the killer disease.
Hospital staff called a team of government researchers to investigate after a woman died in the central town of Nyeri last week from a feverish illness with symptoms reminiscent of ebola.
``We are still crossing our fingers that we are not dealing with Ebola (news - web sites), but we may be proved wrong,'' said a source close to the investigation in Nyeri in Kenya's highlands.
``You pray she died ...
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07/04/2001 |
EBOLA SCARE KEEPS KENYAN TOWN IN SUSPENSE
By Matthew Green
NYERI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan health workers said on Tuesday they were on alert for an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus as officials investigated what might be the country's first recorded case of the killer disease.
Hospital staff called a team of government researchers to investigate after a woman died in the central town of Nyeri last week from a feverish illness with symptoms reminiscent of ebola.
``We are still crossing our fingers that we are not dealing with Ebola (news - web sites), but we may be proved wrong,'' said a source close to the investigation in Nyeri in Kenya's highlands.
``You pray she died ...
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06/04/2001 |
EBOLA SCARE KEEPS KENYAN TOWN IN SUSPENSE
By Matthew Green
NYERI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan health workers said on Tuesday they were on alert for an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus as officials investigated what might be the country's first recorded case of the killer disease.
Hospital staff called a team of government researchers to investigate after a woman died in the central town of Nyeri last week from a feverish illness with symptoms reminiscent of ebola.
``We are still crossing our fingers that we are not dealing with Ebola (news - web sites), but we may be proved wrong,'' said a source close to the investigation in Nyeri in Kenya's highlands.
``You pray she died ...
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