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Thu Aug 21

• Vaccine refusals fuel jump in measles outbreaks - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com

Wed Aug 20

• Millions risk health by eating food grown with polluted water, says UN report | Environment | guardian.co.uk: 200 million people around the world risk their health daily by eating food grown using untreated waste water, some of which may be contaminated with heavy metals and raw sewage
• World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis: the International Water Management Institute indicates that 80 percent of those studied are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture. In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban agricultural land is irrigated with wastewater that is either raw or diluted in streams.
• Global study shows widespread sewage use on farms.pdf: growing health risks caused by the widespread use of raw sewage to irrigate crops
• Pandemic: An interesting disease simulation, pandemic demonstrates how different things affect a contagion' ;s virulence.

Tue Aug 19

• Bacteria Fingered As Killer In 1918 Flu Pandemic : NPR
• HIV prevention: Time to ditch cultural sentimentality ?: Exceptional times require exceptional measures and the time has come to get ride of the cultural blinds that have hindered the response to the HIV epidemic during the last 25 years. Loosing life or loosing face, how long are we going to waffle?

Mon Aug 18

• Money Facts Blog: Look at what they didn't tell you! This is not good to keep from consumers!
• The challenge of providing health care to HIV-infected drug users

Sun Aug 17

• Educators, politicians, and MTV take aim at US dropout 'epidemic' | csmonitor.com: With her grandmother correcting her grammar every step of the way, Jynell Harrison made it to high school graduation in 2005. It wasn't easy being surrounded by "a lot of kids that didn't really care about education" ; and teachers who "get fed up with kids not paying attention, and kind of lose interest," ; she says in a phone interview. Nearly half the students in her district, Providence, R.I., don't graduate high school within four years. Now making gelato for a living and paying rent to her mom, Ms. Harrison poured her ideas about education into an essay after hearing about a $10,000 college scholarship contest on MTV. She won, and on May 9 she'll speak in front of hundreds of educators, policymakers, and peers at the National Summit to End America's Silent Dropout Epidemic. "I'm most looking forward to having my opinion mean something,&quo t; she says.

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