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- IRIN humanitarian news: Less silence, more science could make anal sex safer
  Posted by okami
  NEW DELHI, 27 February 2008 (PlusNews) - The silence and taboo surrounding anal sex is putting millions of men and women at risk of HIV, delegates attending the fourth international microbicides conference in New Delhi, India, heard this week.
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases On The Rise
  Posted by okami
  It's not just your imagination. Providing the first-ever definitive proof, a team of scientists has shown that emerging infectious diseases such as HIV, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), West Nile virus and Ebola are indeed on the rise. The team recently published their findings in leading scientific journal Nature.
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- Medication Under a Microscope
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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- More than 40 percent of Chinese rural drinking water unfit: report
  Posted by okami
  More than 40 percent of drinking water in rural China falls short of government standards, state media said Monday, citing a health ministry study.
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- US military officials knew about contaminated water at Marine base
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  As many as 1 million people were exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, a US Marine Corps base in North Carolina, according to the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in a document revealed at a hearing convened by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington June 12. The figure is far higher than previous estimates.
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- Giant Rats Invade the U.S.
  Posted by Damianmann from Associated Press
  Carroll works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and for three years he has painstakingly tracked the journey of Gambian rats from their African homeland, through the exotic pet trade, and to U.S. homes.
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Disease

IRIN humanitarian news: Less silence, more science could make anal sex safer

Emerging Infectious Diseases On The Rise

Medication Under a Microscope

More than 40 percent of Chinese rural drinking water unfit: report

US military officials knew about contaminated water at Marine base

Giant Rats Invade the U.S.

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