Via: The Canadian Press, http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090325/national/mba_flooding WINNIPEG Manitoba’s chief medical health officer is advising people to be careful of the water they drink during flooding and spring runoff. Dr. Joel Kettner says in a release that water from wells or other questionable sources should be brought to a rolling boil for at least one minute before
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By: Rosemary Stephen. On 22 Dec 2008, there was a coal sludge spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Roane County Tennessee, caused by a breach of an above-ground impoundment. The spill damaged 12 homes, covered at least 300 acres (120 ha) of land with up to 6 feet deep (1.82m) sludge making it
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By: Rosemary Stephen. In Part I, published in Elements on Nov 20th, 2008, I discussed contaminated wild mushrooms harvested in the nuclear exclusion zones in Europe, and what travelers could do to avoid ingesting caesium-137. Now, in Part II, I will look more closely at what radioactive contaminants may affect our food following a non-occupational
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By: Susan-Marie Cronkite, PhD. “During these times, there was a pestilence, by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated…..It started among the Egyptians, then it moved to Palestine and from there spread over the whole world…..” Procopius, History of the Wars, II.xxii (Available on-line: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/542procopius-plague.html) Epidemics were a well-known event in the
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By: Rosemary Stephen. If someone were ask me for recommendations about eating wild mushrooms while on holiday in Europe, I feel I would not be able to provide information that would be safe and accurate. In my North American view of the world, I believed the aftermath of Chernobyl had a minimal effect and should
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John Hastad,Co-Founder of HealthSpace Technologies talks about the importance for Environmental Health Professionals and Environmental health agencies to be prepared for the inevitability of storms and floods in their region.
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