Utah extends pool ban to battle parasite
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After more than 1,300 illnesses, health officials Tuesday extended a ban on toddlers in public swimming pools to try to stop cryptosporidium, a parasite that can cause severe diarrhea.
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On April 16, 2007, the Nevada state engineer authorized Nevada to start pumping 20 billion gallons of water from the Snake aquifer. This means the Utah water resource board has agreed to allow Las Vegas to suck out the 8 billion gallons of water in Utah.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 14--MELBOURNE -- The state wildlife commission voted Wednesday to stop issuing permits to developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, ending a 16-year policy that had been criticized as both cruel and a cause of the species' decline.
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By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret Morning News  FARMINGTON -- As temperatures skyrocket and more children's outdoor activities involve water, the Davis County Health Department wants to remind residents not to use secondary water to keep cool.
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BOISE, Idaho - A Canyon County horse tested positive for West Nile virus, say state health officials who advise the public to take care with mosquitoes.
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By Lisa Riley Roche and Amelia Nielson-Stowell Deseret Morning News  Despite nearly two hours of discussion behind closed doors Monday, Senate Republicans still haven't decided whether the state should take action to keep the Real Salt Lake soccer team in Utah.
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By Joe Wojtas, The Day, New London, Conn.  Sep. 20--STONINGTON -- The Aquarion Water Co.
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TORONTO - Ontario may soften new rules that requires fish to be frozen and thawed before being served raw. The Sept. 1 ban called for fish to be frozen in order to kill potential parasites.
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Most states, including Utah, are not braced for a bioterror attack or disease pandemic, a report said Tuesday, focusing attention on what will be a key challenge for Mike Leavitt
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    -----     Arizona Leads Nation in West Nile Cases      Thousands of abandoned swimming pools, along with irrigation canals and other prime breeding sites for mosquitoes in Phoenix, have made Arizona the state hardest hit by West Nile virus this year.      Arizona has accounted for at least 290 of more than 500 reported cases of West Nile virus in the United States so far in 2004...
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More than 1 billion gallons of contaminated water Â enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools Â is trapped in a tunnel in the mountains above the historic town of Leadville and threatening to blow.
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A second bag of spinach contaminated   with toxic E.coli bacteria has been found in Utah, and   regulators hope it will offer clues about an outbreak that has   now sickened 173 people and killed as many as three.
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By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret Morning News  LEHI -- A plan that would protect an additional 42 acres of Utah Lake wetlands could add 45 new names to the list of homeowners who could lose their property when the proposed Mountain View Corridor road is constructed.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 17--When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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LOGAN, Utah - A woman is fighting the City Council in Providence to issue her a permit to run a colon-cleansing service out of her home.  Colon hydrotherapy is a licensed procedure in other states, but in Utah is considered only a homeopathic method.
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By Detroit Free Press  Sep. 11--The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week proposed banning the import and interstate transfer of silver carp, a long overdue step. They were brought into this country mostly by Southern fish farmers, who used them to clear their ponds of algae.
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At left, Sterling Brinkerhoff, 5, helps Jim Karpowitz with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stock Willow Pond in Murray with trout on Thursday. Right, Bumble, the official mascot of the Salt Lake Bees, supervises as catchable-size fish are dumped into Willow Pond.