Derailed coal train in Maryland at authorized speed kills two
A coal train derailed in Ellicott City Maryland with an engineer in training at the controls while investigators review videos track conditions and maintenance records. Two 19 year old college students on a nearby bridge were killed and buried under coal as the train passed.
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Ellicott City
Maryland
National Transportation Safety Board
Jim Southworth
Howard County
Norway weighs humane fate for Breivik after mass killings
Oslo prosecutors prepare for a Friday ruling on Anders Behring Breivik. If declared insane he would occupy a dedicated psychiatric ward with 17 staff and access to therapy. if fit, he remains isolated in Ila Prison with three 86 square foot cells until possible future transfer.
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Oslo
Norway
Anders Behring Breivik
Ila
Breivik
Labor Party
Anders Behring
Utoya
New adult onset immunodeficiency linked to autoantibodies
Researchers identify a mysterious AIDS-like syndrome in Asia and the U.S. affecting adults around age 50. The condition is not HIV related and appears non contagious, with autoantibodies blocking interferon gamma and widespread infections.
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Asia
United States
Sarah Browne
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Thailand
Taiwan
New England Journal of Medicine
Dennis Maki
University of Wisconsin
Madison
NIH
Bethesda
Browne
Sarah K. Browne
Kim Nguyen
National Institute of Health
West Nile outbreak called among largest in United States
The West Nile outbreak is among the largest in U.S. history with 1,118 illnesses and 41 deaths reported as of August amid early peak trends. Texas accounts for about half the cases. experts cite mild winter, early spring and hot summer as factors and note possible virus mutation is under look.
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Atlanta
U.S
Lyle Petersen
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
United States
Petersen
CDC
Texas
Sayfar
Uganda
New York
Gene sleuths halt deadly germ outbreak at NIH hospital
NIH researchers describe a six month outbreak of a carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the NIH Clinical Center. Eighteen patients harbored the germ, six died from bloodstream infections, while five more died from diseases that brought them to the hospital. Genome sequencing traced the spread to sinks and a ventilator.
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Washington
National Institutes of Health
NIH
KPC
Tara Palmore
NIH Clinical Center
Julie Segre
National Human Genome Research Institute
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N.J
Cheyenne Thomas
Thomas
Zahree
Department of Children and Families
Mississippi River
Greenville
Miss
Coast Guard
Ryan Tippets
Rebecca Walthour
Tippets
Missouri
Tennessee
Arkansas
Mississippi
Army Corps
Julia Gronnevet
Associated Press
Ellen Bjercke
Bjercke
Vietnam
Carlton Hays Jr
Jackson Clinic
Jackson
Tenn
Nguyen
West Nile
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