Fla., NC Top List of States Prepared for Bioterrorism
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Florida and North Carolina scored highest in a report &quot;Protecting the Public&#39;s Health in the Age of Bioterrorism,&quot; released by the Trust for America&#39;s Health.
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California is lagging in key areas of readiness for a bioterrorism attack, according to a national study released yesterday. The state fell short on five of the 10 indicators
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RALEIGH, NC -- State health officials announced Monday that they have identified the that they have collected enough information from the ongoing E. Coli disease investigation to identify the state fair as the source of the outbreak.
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Doctors, nursing homes and other private health care providers in Florida can expect about 370,000 new doses of flu vaccine to arrive soon.
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NEW YORK  - Ten healthy female students at  a rural, co-ed North Carolina high school had repeated bouts of  seizures, swooning and hyperventilation over a four-month  period in 2002 -- an outbreak that experts are calling an  example of mass hysteria.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A men&#39;s magazine has ranked the most dangerous cities for sexually transmitted diseases, and Jacksonville placed among those with the highest rates of transmission.
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Veterans' hospitals,     pediatricians, nursing homes and the U.S. military head the  list of those getting flu vaccine first this year under a plan  to make up for the loss of half the country's supply, officials  said on Tuesday.
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By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON - More than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the government cannot show how the $5 billion given to public health departments has better prepared the country for a bioterrorism attack or flu pandemic.
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Baltimore scientists say rapidly getting antibiotics to people exposed to anthrax spores in a bioterrorist attack could prevent 70 percent of infections.
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_ Hartford has been named the nation&#39;s seventh-most dangerous city, while Danbury and Stamford have been recognized for their safety, according to a company&#39;s annual ranking based on crime statistics.
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The U.S. Congress on Saturday passed a bill to improve U.S. preparedness for bioterrorism or other health crises, in part by accelerating development of new vaccines and drugs.
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Florida will receive an additional 440,000 doses of scarce flu vaccine by next Tuesday, bringing the total doses shipped to the state to more than a million, state Health Secretary Dr.
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By ROLAND HUGHES  EMERGENCY services have identified 18 key places in North Wales which would pose most threat to the public if attacked by terrorists.   A document advising health bodies how to react in case of a major incident will be distributed today.
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U.S. counterterrorism officials are paying renewed attention to an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mauritania to the harsh deserts of Chad.
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State health officials are expanding their early warning system for a bioterrorist attack by employing the help of rabbits, squirrels, mice and other critters.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent anthrax scare, medical experts are still struggling with how best to handle a widespread bioterrorism attack.
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TALLAHASSEEÂ· About 370,000 new doses of flu vaccine likely will be bound for Florida this week for distribution to doctors, nursing homes and other private health care providers, state officials said Monday.