Yosemite workers will be studied for disease clues

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Public health officials plan to interview and collect blood samples from up to 2,500 Yosemite National Park workers as they hunt for clues in the biggest outbreak of the deadly hantavirus in nearly two decades, a state health official said on Monday. The voluntary employee screening, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, is the most recent effort to shed light on the rare, mouse-borne lung disease, which infected nine park visitors and killed three last summer. …

U.S. economists win Nobel for applying match-making

Combination photograph of 2012 Economics Nobel Prize winners Lloyd Shapley of UCLA and Alvin Roth of Stanford UniversitySTOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Life-saving kidney exchanges and ways for schools to select students are just two practical applications of the market-matching theories for which U.S. economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday. Pairing up employers with job seekers – for instance doctors and lawyers taking up their first appointments – are other examples of how Roth, 60, and Shapley, 89, have separately applied game theory to daily life. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the 8 million crown ($1. …

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