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Study finds strong link between Zika and Guillain-Barre

  By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – A comparison of rates of Guillain-Barre syndrome before and after Zika arrived in seven countries has found a strong association between the virus and the illness, researchers from the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday. The current Zika outbreak was first detected in Brazil last year and has since spread across the Americas and the Caribbean. Pregnant women are considered to be at greatest risk because the […]

Malaysia confirms first case of Zika, launches measures to contain spread of virus

  KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia confirmed on Thursday its first case of Zika after a woman tested positive for the virus following a three-day visit to neighboring Singapore on August 19. The 58-year-old woman had showed signs of a rash and fever one week after returning from Singapore, according to Health Minister Subramaniam Sathasivam. “We are carrying out control measures against aedes mosquitoes near the woman’s home to prevent the spread of the virus,” […]

Wake up and smell your alarm clock

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — The smell of coffee is supposed to get you going in the morning. Now a French start-up has taken this idea a stage further with an olfactory alarm clock designed to gradually wake you up by diffusing the smell of espresso instead of blasting your ears with an audio ring. Sensorwake is the brainchild of 20-year-old Guillaume Rolland and is being launched at this week’s IFA, Europe’s leading trade show for consumer […]

Beautiful northern lights light up the Lapland sky

ROVANIEMI, Finland (Reuters) — An aurora hunter managed to capture a light-show over northern Finland Monday (August 29) night. Wanting to see the northern lights as clearly as possible, he drove out in the countryside, some 30 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, away from the city’s lights. The northern lights are the result of collisions between the Earth’s gaseous particles and matter released by the Sun’s atmosphere. The collisions can jar the magnetosphere around the […]

Yellow fever outbreak in Congo, Angola bigger than thought: WHO

GENEVA (Reuters) – Some 6,000 people in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo are believed to be infected with yellow fever, six times the number of confirmed cases, but no new infections have been confirmed since July 12, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Around 7.7 million people were vaccinated over 10 days in a major campaign in the Congo capital of Kinshasa, Oyewale Tomori, chair of WHO’s Emergency Committee, told a news conference. […]

3,000 year old treasures dated to the time of King David unveiled

ELAH VALLEY, Israel (Reuters) — The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem offered a unique preview on Monday (August 29) of an exhibition showcasing 3,000 year-old artifacts recovered from Khirbet Qeiyafa which archaeologists believe could be the biblical city of Sha’arayim, meaning ‘Two Gates’, that is mentioned in the story of the battle of David and the Philistine giant, Goliath. Khirbet Qeiyafa, overlooking the Elah Valley, southwest of Jerusalem is an ancient fortified city that was discovered […]

Lightning kills more than 300 wild reindeer

OSLO, Norway — A game warden stumbled across these eerie images while making his rounds, some 323 reindeer, including 70 calves, lying dead on the ground. Norwegian officials are taking samples from the carcasses to make sure, but they believe that the animals were killed by lightning. They say it’s not uncommon for that to happen, but it is unusual for storms to kill so many animals are one time. They say the animals usually […]

Study sounds alarm for slow-breeding forest elephants

PARIS, France (AFP) — Even without poachers, Central Africa’s forest elephants would need almost a century to get their numbers back up to 2002 levels, said a study Wednesday that pried into the elusive creatures’ slow-breeding ways. The population had been decimated by illegal hunting, with an estimated 65 percent decline between 2002 and 2013, said researchers. Roaming the tropical forests of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Democratic Republic of Congo, the tusker sub-species […]

Study finds flaws in criticism of St. Jude cyber security

By Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) – University of Michigan researchers on Tuesday said their own experiments undermine recent allegations of security flaws in St. Jude Medical Inc’s pacemakers and other implantable medical devices. Shares of St. Jude fell 5 percent on Thursday after short-selling firm Muddy Waters and its business partner, cyber security company MedSec Holdings Inc, alleged finding significant security bugs in the company’s Merlin@home device for monitoring implanted heart devices. They said the flaws […]

P2P bus service, mas mabilis at mas ligtas na paraan ng transportasyon

Ni Aily Milyo Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Muling naglunsad ang Department of Transportation (DOTr) at Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board o LTFRB ng Point to Point o P2P Bus Service. Ang bagong  P2P bus service point ay may ruta mula Robinson’s Novaliches patungong Park Square Makati. Ito na ang pang-limang ruta ng P2P bus. Ang iba pang ruta ng P2P bus service ay sa North Edsa to Makati, dalawa sa Ortigas to Makati […]

Singapore Zika cases surge to 82

Singapore, Singapore (AFP) – The number of Zika cases in Singapore has surged to 82, the government said Tuesday, as the mosquito-fighting effort continued in a bid to curb the spread of the disease. Singapore’s Ministry of Health and National Environment Agency confirmed 26 new local infections — the majority around the eastern Aljunied suburb where most of the other cases have been clustered. Many of the initial cases were foreign workers on a condominium […]