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A death from cancer, and a search for answers
Randy White had just buried a daughter, dead at 30 with a brain tumor. Now his other daughter had been diagnosed with growths in her abdomen.
When doctors told White in 2009 that their conditions were likely caused by something in their environment,...Tags: Fort Detrick (military base), Human Body, Randy White, Regional Authority, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Dr. Ross J. Brechner, ophthalmologist and state epidemiologist, dies at 71
Dr. Ross Joseph Brechner, a mathematician turned ophthalmologist who abandoned private practice for a second career in public health, died Aug. 4 of heart disease at his Catonsville home.
He was 71.
"Ross was a fine ophthalmologist who changed careers...Tags: Terrorism, Hospitals and Clinics, Midwood, Union Carbide Corp., Princeton University
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Variety of research carried out at Fort Detrick
Sun reporterFort Detrick, where scientist Bruce E. Ivins worked for more than three decades, is the largest U.S. government research center focused primarily on biodefense. Set on a former airfield north of Frederick where the Maryland National Guard once based a...Tags: Immune System, U.S. Military, Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, American Red Cross
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Fears of flu pandemic spurring preparations
Sun StaffThey gathered around a hotel conference table in Howard County, planning for what might be Maryland's worst public health crisis. The public health and safety experts spun a shocking scenario arising from the threat of an avian flu pandemic from Asia:...Tags: Asia, Employees, National Institutes of Health, John Bartlett, Health Organizations
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A versatile virus
Sun StaffThe flu season that arrives each fall kills an average of 36,000 people in the United States alone. Far deadlier are worldwide outbreaks, called pandemics, that periodically sweep through human populations. Over the past 300 years, there have been 10...Tags: Science, Asia, Hospitals and Clinics, Immune System, Health Organizations
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Questions raised as localities stockpile anthrax antidotes
Sun StaffFire Lt. Randall Owens keeps one in the locker at his Rockville station and another in the master bathroom of his Frederick County home. His are two of the 7,000 "bio-packs" of anthrax antidotes given to 3,500 Montgomery County firefighters and police...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Employees, Ciprofloxacin (drug), Defense, Health and Safety at School
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Facing anthrax scare with rational caution
AMERICANS should react to the possibility of terrorism by anthrax spore as they have to such dangers as cancer from the sun and death on the highways - by proceeding with caution, even extreme caution, but not with panic. A handful of incidents,...Tags: Terrorism, Tom Daschle, Health Organizations, Al-Qaeda, Plastic Surgeons
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Hopkins doctor takes on bioterrorism
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The Johns Hopkins doctor who decades ago led the worldwide effort to wipe out smallpox is wasting no time trying to inoculate the nation against a bioterrorist attack. Recently asked by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Employees, Preventative Medicine, Health Organizations, Vaccines
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Anthrax found in third worker at paper in Fla.
Sun StaffBOCA RATON, Fla. - A third employee of a tabloid newspaper was exposed to anthrax, federal officials said last night, prompting them to launch a criminal investigation into how the bacteria were spread, by whom and why. The employee was identified as a...Tags: Terrorism, Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Employees, Preventative Medicine
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Anthrax probe widens as second case discovered
Sun StaffFederal officials widened their probe yesterday into the death of a Florida man from anthrax, acknowledging that they are considering bioterrorism after anthrax spores were found on the victim's computer keyboard and in a colleague. Attorney General John...Tags: Terrorism, Hospitals and Clinics, Employees, University of Texas at Austin, Illnesses
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Anthrax alert shuts House
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - Investigators said that they have "substantive leads" about the origins of the anthrax that was mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and triggered a partial shutdown yesterday on Capitol Hill. Congressional leaders closed the House...Tags: Tom Daschle, Employees, Police Investigations, Nursing, Starbucks Corp.
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'No guarantees' that mail is safe, postmaster says
Sun StaffTrying to reassure postal workers and an anxious public, the postmaster general moved to shore up the U.S. postal system against biological attack -- even suggesting that people should wash their hands after touching their mail. "We're telling people...Tags: Tom Daschle, Employees, Labor Legislation, Symptoms, Skin Lesion
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