Environmental Health News from Environmental Health Sciences
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Haiti fears cholera will spread in the capital.
With the number of dead rising above 200, health officials battling a cholera outbreak in Haiti grew ever more pessimistic Saturday that the disease could be contained to a rural area and braced for a medical disaster in the capital.
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Cholera catastrophe threatens Haiti.
Haiti was last night on the brink of a new humanitarian disaster after an outbreak of cholera swept the central part of the country, killing almost 200 people and infecting over 2,500 more.
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Cholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti's capital.
A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.
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Miami doctors in Haiti race to fight cholera outbreak.
Doctors from the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine were the first to arrive in Haiti following a devastating January 12 earthquake. Now they and Project Medishare are racing to fight a cholera epidemic that threatens to become a severe crisis in the unsanitary conditions in central Haiti.
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Cholera outbreak in quake-hit Haiti claims 200 lives with 2,000 more ill... and it will get worse.
The first cases of cholera have been detected in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and the epidemic spreading in the region will get worse, according to health experts.
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Barataria residents protest 'toxic' body shop.
A young child fainted at a press conference held by residents of Barataria and MP for Barataria/San Juan Dr. Fuad Khan about the hazardous fumes emanating from a nearby auto body shop and the health complications stemming from exposure to the chemical.
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'Catastrophe' looms as cholera nears Haiti capital; 220 dead.
More than a dozen people have died of cholera in central Haiti, adding to concerns that the deadly outbreak is edging closer to the densely populated capital, officials said Saturday. The sudden cholera epidemic has in recent days killed 220 people, mainly in northern Haiti.
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Dr. Lynn Goldman wins Heinz Award.
Galveston native Dr. Lynn Goldman, a pediatrician and epidemiologist, has been named a recipient of a Heinz Award for her work to protect people, particularly children, from toxic chemicals.
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Old Stimson cooling pond coughs up logs, concrete, slowing cleanup of PCB soil.
Relics of the past have slowed progress on removing PCB-contaminated soil from the former Stimson Lumber Co. mill in Bonner.
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Migrants unite for better trailer park living.
In the five years Pasquala Beaza has lived in a squalid trailer park for migrant farmworkers, she has endured the stench of sewage overflows, street flooding and blackouts. Now Beaza's husband and four other residents sued their landlords in state court, joining a growing minority of trailer dwellers fighting to improve conditions.
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