Over 160 sickened in Jordan poisoning
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Over 160 people from a single town in northern Jordan were hospitalized on Saturday for poisoning, which health officials attributed to either bad food or contaminated water. It was the third such case in four months.
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Assembly member Huw Lewis is demanding answers and assurances from Welsh Water following a river chemical spillage.   A death toll of around 1,000 fish was expected after three tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the Taf Fechan from Pontsticill water treatment works on August 13.
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KIEV/MOSCOW  - Scores of people sought medical help on Wednesday after a poisonous chemical spill in Ukraine, Greenpeace said, and warned of the dangers to health and the environment from the toxic fumes.
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Three people have been hospitalized and more than 300 people claim they became ill after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant last weekend, a health official said Friday.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flies to Jordan after falling ill due to pressure of work, his office says.
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Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan was hospitalized with a blood clot in his left leg and will miss the next two games. Jordan, 49, felt discomfort in his leg and was hospitalized Thursday night after consulting
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HACKNEY is to come under chemical attack today in a simulated exercise to test the emergency services. Hundreds of volunteers, who will pretend to be contaminated with an unknown toxic substance, will take part in the test disaster on Hackney Marshes.
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THOUSANDS of people, including 120 in Scotland, have been warned they may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through contaminated blood products.
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Thousands of people are to be told they may have been exposed to vCJD through contaminated blood products.
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As many as 160,000 Arizona homes and businesses could have been exposed to contaminated drinking water over the past eight years because overworked water-quality enforcers were unable to investigate violations fast enough, a state audit reported Thursday.
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At least 600 people came down with a gastrointestinal illness after eating at a popular biker bar and restaurant, health officials said Friday.
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Hundreds of Chinese villagers are hit by lead poisoning caused by pollution from a local plant, reports say.
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A leading Indonesian human rights campaigner who died mysteriously in September was poisoned, it emerged yesterday. Munir suddenly fell ill on a flight from Singapore
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By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 14--About 1,100 families in Wichita are being encouraged to get blood tests for their children because their water may be contaminated with lead.
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A rented army of 130,000 civilians supports 160,000 United States soldiers and marines, dying and suffering alongside their brothers and sisters in uniform.
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By Laura Elston, Deputy Court Correspondent, PA News in Jordan. Five of the British tourists injured in a coach crash in Jordan have been moved to a hospital in the capital city Amman, a doctor said today.
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Thousands of people were told yesterday that they might have been infected with the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy through contaminated blood plasma products.