West Nile virus found in B.C. mosquitoes Via: CBC News (originally posted: Aug. 26, 2009) “The West Nile virus has been found in B.C. for the first time, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. Mosquitoes collected in a trap in B.C’s south Okanagan have tested positive for the virus, officials said. The centre
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By: Susan-Marie Cronkite, PhD. Asklepius (Asclepius, Asklepios, Latin: Aesculapius) the ancient Greek god of medicine. In myth, Asklepius was the son of the god Apollo and a mortal woman named Coronis. Apollo slept with Coronis and she became pregnant. Fearing no one would believe that she was in-child by a god, Coronis married another man.
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By: Kim Elton, Mambo NetCommunications inc. and Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence Mr. Willmott has been attending Environmental and Public Health conferences for 5 or 6 years and he has noticed real changes in the industry within that time. The changes are especially evident in the way Health Departments prepare RFPs; once IT was
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Via: Eureka Alert Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 202-872-6042 American Chemical Society “WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2009 – Scientists have used a new vaccine production technology to develop a vaccine for norovirus, a dreaded cause of diarrhea and vomiting that may be the second most common viral infection in the United States after the flu. Sometimes called
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By: Kim Elton, Mambo NetCommunications inc. and Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence Mr. King holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology, a master’s degree in Management, he is the Assistant Executive Director of the Central District Health Department in Grand Island, Nebraska and the current president of the Nebraska Environmental Health Association Board. Ryan King
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By: Kim Elton, Mambo NetCommunications inc. and Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence Mr. Keith Krinn is an Environmental Health Administrator at the Columbus Public Health office in Ohio, the 1st vice president of the National Environmental Health Association and the in-coming president elect of the association. In this video interview, he discusses the success
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By: Rosemary Stephen, Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence Part I: The Current State Climate change is a serious global problem resulting in disrupted weather patterns, violent storms, rising global temperatures and rising ocean levels. Climate change is also displacing people; small family groups to whole populations are being forced to leave their homelands due to environmental
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By: Susan-Marie Cronkite, PhD. Apollo was the Greek god of healing, music, art, dance, the light of wisdom, archery, prophecy, poetry and the arts, but he also had a darker role as the mechanism of plagues. In the guise of Apollo Aphetoros (the Archer), Apollo Smintheus (of mice) or as Apollo Parnopius (of grasshoppers), the
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By: Susan-Marie Cronkite, PhD. H ygeia is a Greek goddess, one of the 5 daughters of Asklepius, and the personification of health. She was central to the cult of Asklepius, worshipped alongside her father, as a figure of personal and community health. Hygeia was considered important in the prevention of disease and plagues. Her cult
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