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• Stay “In-the-Know” With These 10 Public Health Twitter Feeds

  
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  Whatever the true intended purpose was when Twitter was originally created and became popular, this social media forum has become ingrained in our culture in many ways. Not only is it a global front for socialization, but it has also … Continue reading  →
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• Authorities: At least 42 people killed in Islamic extremist attacks in northeast Nigeria

  
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  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities: At least 42 people killed in Islamic extremist attacks in northeast Nigeria. Continued here: Authorities: At least 42 people killed in Islamic extremist attacks in northeast Nigeria
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• Diplomats: Brazil wins race for next WTO director

  
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  GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization has settled on Roberto Azevedo of Brazil, a well-known diplomat and consummate insider in Geneva circles, to serve as its director-general for the next four years, officials said Tuesday. Azevedo won by positioning himself as someone who could turn around — even heal — ...
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• Kerry suggests US may not need to arm rebels if Syrian political transition moves forward

  
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  MOSCOW (AP) — Kerry suggests US may not need to arm rebels if Syrian political transition moves forward. Read the original post: Kerry suggests US may not need to arm rebels if Syrian political transition moves forward
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• Dow Jones industrial average closes above 15,000 points for the first time

  
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  NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones industrial average closes above 15,000 points for the first time. Continued here: Dow Jones industrial average closes above 15,000 points for the first time
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• Bombs kill 17 on Pakistan campaign trail

  
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  Bombs killed 17 people and wounded dozens more including an election candidate in Pakistan on Tuesday, raising to more than 100 the death toll from attacks on the campaign for Saturday’s polls. The attacks took place in the northwestern town of Hangu, a flashpoint for violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and ...
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• Bank of China closes account of key North Korean bank

  
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  Bank of China has shut the account of North Korea’s main foreign exchange bank, which was hit with US sanctions in March after Washington accused it of helping finance Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. The state-run Foreign Trade Bank had been told its transactions had been halted and its account closed, Bank ...
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• Beijing says US defence report hypes China threat

  
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  Beijing on Tuesday dismissed an annual Pentagon report that accused it of widespread cyberspying on the US government, rejecting it as an “irresponsible” attempt to drum up fear of China as a military threat. The paper came as concerns in Washington have grown over Beijing’s double-digit rises in defence ...
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• World stocks muted as cheer over US jobs fades

  
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  BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets were muted Tuesday as cheer over the better-than-expected U.S. jobs report faded. Japan’s benchmark stock index was the exception, surging 3.6 percent to close at 14,180.24 as it reopened following a long weekend holiday. That was the Nikkei’s highest close in nearly five ...
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• Avian Flu in China

  
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• Mapping The Risks Of H7N9 Bird Flu Infection

  
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  A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is presented in Biomed Centrals open access journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. The map is comprised of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry production and consumption, which are used to infer future risk and to advise on ways to prevent infection. As ...
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• H7N9 Bird Flu Is “Serious Threat,” Researchers Warn

  
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  Researchers continue to study the outbreak of a new type of bird flu, H7N9, in China for any signs that the virus can spread through person-to-person contact. “As long as it can spread only from a bird to a person through direct contact it poses a relatively small risk globally – particularly in richer countries ...
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• Fungus Among Us

  
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  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has been closely tracking the new variant of avian flu emerging in the bird markets of China. But the CDC has more than that on its plate of course. One of the other emergent problems it is concerned with is a homegrown epidemic of “Valley Fever.” read more
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• Texas has executed Richard Cobb for killing a man abducted during a 2002 store robbery.

  
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  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed Richard Cobb for killing a man abducted during a 2002 store robbery. More here: Texas has executed Richard Cobb for killing a man abducted during a 2002 store robbery.
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• Deadly foe is hard to recognise and defeat

  
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  Brown root rot is caused by a fungus with strong virulence named Phellinus noxius, which prefers acidic, hot and humid conditions. The disease has been found in the United States and tropical and subtropical regions in Asia, including southern Japan, the mainland, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. It has been reported ...
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• Spain’s jobless above six million for first time

  
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  With over six million unemployed for the first time ever, Spain’s jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year, the National Statistics Institute said on Thursday, in another grim picture of the recession-wracked country. The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by ...
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• Weekly US unemployment benefit applications fall to 339,000, second-lowest level in 5 years

  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — Weekly US unemployment benefit applications fall to 339,000, second-lowest level in 5 years. See the article here: Weekly US unemployment benefit applications fall to 339,000, second-lowest level in 5 years
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• Hundreds of fighters going to Syria ‘a serious threat’ to EU

  
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  The departure of hundreds of young Europeans to fight in Syria poses “a serious threat” to Europe’s security, the EU’s anti-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove said on Thursday. EU citizens were heading “in the hundreds” to Syria which was drawing foreign fighters “in the thousands if we aggregate with those ...
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• China, France vow to promote ‘multipolar’ world

  
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  China’s President Xi Jinping and France’s President Francois Hollande pledged to push for a world free of domination by any superpower on Thursday as the French leader visited the Chinese capital in hopes of boosting trade amid his country’s worsening economic woes. Both leaders stressed their desire for a ...
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• Tracking the spread of the H7N9 avian flu in Google Earth

  
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  Among his other work, such as this interactive map of nuclear reactors , Declan Butler of Nature magazine has created some excellent visualizations of the Avian Flu.  Frank first posted about his work back in 2006 , and his visualizations have consistently improved since then. His latest maps offer some great ...
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