Smoking linked to higher flu risk and severity in soldiers
A study of 336 Israeli soldiers shows 69 percent of smokers contracted influenza compared with 47 percent of non-smokers, with heavier smokers facing more severe illness and greater work disruption. Researchers also note breathing others' smoke may boost flu rates among non-smokers.
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Jeremy D. Kark
Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and
Nine people forced to live in one-room Mississippi shed
In Jackson Mississippi health officials described a group of nine people seven women and two men aged 30s to 60s as feeble and malnourished living in a 10 by 10 foot shed attached to a nursing home house. The shed had no water food or toilet articles and was guarded by two dogs. Mildred Davis was identified as responsible for the nine.
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Monda! G. Kemp
State Health Care Commission
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State Mental Hospital
Whitfield
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