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Canadians warned about malaria outbreak in Bahamas
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is closely monitoring an outbreak of P. falciparum malaria on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas and reports of malaria in tourists who have visited Great Exuma. The agency has been notified of one lab-confirmed case of P. falciparum malaria in a Canadian traveller. In addition, the United States has also reported one case in a returning traveller. Both of these cases traveled to Great Exuma. As of June 14, 2006, 16 confirmed cases of malaria have been detected during the past week. All 16 cases occurred in Bahamian residents. None of the patients reported recent travel to places where malaria is endemic. Malaria is not endemic to the Bahamas. In 2005, only one case was reported and no cases had been reported during the five previous years. The Ministry of Health along with other ministries are conducting active case detection and treatment; vector control including insecticide spraying, larviciding, and source reduction; and health education of the local population.High Core Inflation Means The Fed Has Unfinished Business
It's likely to be a long, hot summer for the Federal Reserve, with the latest retail inflation data showing price gains continuing to speed up.The May consumer price index rose 0.4% from April, the Labor Department said Wednesday. Prices rose 4.2% on the year, the most since gasoline prices soared in September after Hurricane Katrina.
Surging pump prices were the main culprit again in May.
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Targeting diabetes, obesity, smoking
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Caribbean premiers ended their 27th annual summit in Basseterre, St Kitts with an agreement to collectively combat non-communicable diseases and curb serious crimes. The decision to go on the offensive, methodically, against non-communicable diseases, including obesity and mental illness, would also embrace taxing tobacco products and imposing a ban on smoking in public places. Further, with studies revealing an alarming high level of obesity, including among the region's children, Caricom leaders have agreed that policies are to be implemented to:. make physical education compulsory in schools;
. introduce regulations to standardise healthy meals prepared for school children; and
. have food manufacturers cooperate in the marketing of foods that show low calories and fat content.
Grand Bahama Power Co. Ready For Hurricane Season
With forecasters predicting another active Atlantic hurricane season this year, executives at the Grand Bahama Power Company say the company is prepared after fine-tuning its hurricane procedures and undergoing major upgrades. According to Director of Generation Joe Gaskins, approximately $500,000 has been allocated to continue upgrades. Mr. Gaskins told reporters at the Peel Street Power Plant on Tuesday, that this hurricane budget, which is specifically for that plant which services customers from West End to Pelican Point, will allow the plant to have a new generator, additional poles, insulators, wires, transformers, equipment, and even food for employees in the event of a storm. "Each hurricane over the past two years unfortunately has been a lesson. Frances was a long-duration storm; we learned lessons from that.New reefs discovered off Florida's coast
ABOARD THE R/V SEWARD JOHNSON -- Twenty small buckets of shivering-cold seawater held the treasures of the latest expedition into the deep unknown.Shirley Pomponi, fresh from collecting specimens more than 1,000 feet below the Atlantic Ocean, made the assorted sponges and soft corals -- little more than shapeless, sand-colored lumps to the untrained eye -- sound like rare gems.
''Gorgeous. Oh, beautiful goblets, just gorgeous,'' gushed Pomponi, president of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, as she examined a haul that included what might be a new species of bamboo coral. ``It's a richer area than we thought, for sure.''
After two months of dives aboard a specially equipped sub, scientists have emerged enthralled by the strange and beautiful seascapes they're discovering in the largely unexplored deep waters between South Florida and the Bahamas.