Month: January 2015

HOUSTON (Reuters) – A man distraught about his son’s condition at a hospital in the Houston suburb of Tomball on Saturday caused a commotion that led to an evacuation of part of the facility, in what was initially believed to be a hostage situation, police said. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement it did not know whether the man, who was with his son in the critical care unit at Tomball Regional Medical Center, was armed. The evacuation involved areas around the room where the father and son are located, police said. …
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Strains of listeria bacteria found inside a California apple processing plant are believed to be the same ones associated with an outbreak that killed seven people and sickened dozens of others last year, federal officials said. Two strains of Listeria monocytogenes were confirmed in the Bidart Bros. apple processing plant near Bakersfield, California, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. “Those same strains were also found in Bidart Bros. apples collected from a retailer,” the FDA said in a statement on Friday. …
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A bomb explosion in a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday killed at least 16 people and injured more than 20, a security source and witnesses said on Saturday. Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, is often bombed as it lies in the heartland of an insurgency by Sunni Muslim militants Boko Haram to revive a medieval caliphate in Africa’s most populous country, also the continent’s biggest energy producer. A Nigerian security source said at least 11 people were killed and 24 injured by a bomb that went off at 12:15 p.m.(6.15 p.m. ET). …
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By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian health authorities have found 212 villagers infected with HIV in a district where an unlicensed medic has been charged with murder on suspicion of spreading the virus with contaminated equipment. Prosecutors charged the medic with murder last month after the spread of the virus that causes AIDS among scores of people came to light. The 212 people with HIV were discovered after authorities tested a total of 1,940 people in the district in Battambang province in the northwest where the medic treated people. …
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