Chemical-weapons hysteria causes cholera
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No chlorine to purify Iraqi water A senior Iraqi government official has said that Baghdad water treatment plants are critically short of chlorine gas which they need to purify public water supplies. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that supplies of the gas are being held up due to fears it might be used as a chemical weapon, and adds that chlorine is vitally necessary to control an ongoing cholera outbreak in Iraq.â¦
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By PATRICK MULCHRONE  A BNP election candidate stockpiled explosive chemicals because he feared Britain was on the brink of civil war, a court heard yesterday.   Robert Cottage also told friends he wanted to shoot Tony Blair.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 21 -- An outbreak of cholera has spread from northern Iraq to Baghdad, infecting at least 1,500 people, the World Health Organization announced Friday.
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--A chlorine leak at a chemical plant on Tacoma's waterfront Monday night sent a large force of firefighters and medical personnel to the scene and forced the evacuation of the industrial area around the plant.
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Deadly and debilitating chlorine gas has been added the arsenal of weapons fueling the explosive insurgency in Iraq with chemical attacks leaving at least 12 dead and more than 200 hospitalized in the past week.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released on Tuesday.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Iraqi insurgents have added poisonous chlorine gas to their armory and two bombs using the chemical have killed 12 and injured 200 in a week.
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Iraqi health officials confirmed the first cases of cholera in Baghdad today, in a sign that an epidemic that has infected approximately 7,000 people in northern Iraq is spreading south.
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By Platteborze, Peter L  WAR OF NERVES: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda, Jonathan B. Tucker, Pantheon Books, New York, 2006, 479 pages, $30.00. Jonathan Tucker is a worldrenowned arms control expert in the fields of chemical and biological weapons who served as a U.N.
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More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination
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More than 1,500 people have cholera in Iraq and the outbreak has spread from the north to Baghdad, where conditions are ripe for the disease to thrive, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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NEW YORK -- After a drug ingredient from China killed dozens of Haitian children a decade ago, a senior American health official sent a cable to her investigators: Find out who made the poisonous ingredient and why a state-owned company in China exported it as safe, pharmaceutical-grade glycerin.
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The treat of biological weapons is real and needs to be tackled now , medical experts warn.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released Tuesday.
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Science & environment: Scientists look for uses for highly toxic material amid fears huge stockpiles may become terrorist targets
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More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.