Source: The Boston Globe
The Department of Homeland Security sees Morses Line as a weak link in the nation’s borders, attractive to terrorists trying to smuggle in lethal materials. The government is planning an estimated $8 million renovation here as part of a nationwide effort to secure border crossings.
It intends to acquire 4.9 acres of [...]
The French health ministry issued a warning on Tuesday after eight people died and seven fell sick in two European countries from using heroin contaminated by anthrax.
“Since December 6, there have been 15 confirmed cases of anthrax among heroin users, 14 in Scotland and one in Germany,” the ministry’s General Directorate for Health (DGS) said in [...]
Rossouw is on the front lines of a new battle in the fight against HIV: The drugs that once worked so well are starting not to work. And now the resistance is showing up in sub-Saharan Africa, home to two-thirds of the world’s 33 million HIV cases.
Ten years ago, between 1 percent and 5 percent of [...]
Slovakia is closing all but one of its border crossings with Ukraine because of the swine flu epidemic there which has claimed 135 lives. Nearly 900,000 people in Ukraine are infected with the A(H1N1) virus which causes the flu (known as Mexican flu in the Netherlands).
The measure is designed to stop the spread of swine flu [...]
