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    0 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | news, medicine, pandemic, epidemiology
    One dead and 280 quarantined on Canadian train - Yahoo! News

    I'll try again.

    Quoted: One person died and about 280 were placed in quarantine aboard a cross-Canada train on Friday after a mystery illness caused violent flu-like symptoms.

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    0 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | news, medicine, pandemic, epidemiology
    Canadian train in quarantine after death, illness - Yahoo! News

    How fucking creepy.
    This entire article, as well as the headline, has been changed since I posted it. WOW. Now the tone is "there is no problem here..." and there never was... jesus, do I hear black helicopters?

    Quoted: One person died and several others were taken to hospital after a mystery illness hit passengers on a Canadian long-distance train, local media said on Friday.

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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2008 | health, illness, news, medical news, epidemiology, prions
    Medical News: AAN: Pork Worker Nerve Illness Has Autoimmune Cause - in Meeting Coverage, AAN from MedPage Today

    Quoted: CHICAGO, April 16 -- An autoimmune reaction stemming from exposure to aerosolized pig brains appears to have caused mysterious neurological symptoms in two dozen Midwestern pork plant workers.

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    5 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 08 2008 | medicine, science, news, epidemiology
    Bat and vaccine breakthrough in fight against Ebola, Marburg

    Quoted: PhysOrg news: Bat and vaccine breakthrough in fight against Ebola, Marburg

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    0 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 31 2007 | aids, hiv, pandemic, epidemiology, science, news
    Traced: The Origins of the Aids Epidemic in America : Health

    Quoted: An international team of scientists has revealed in the US National Academy of Sciences that the strain of the HIV virus which was the scourge of the United States and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s in all probability originated in the Caribbean island of Haiti.

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    0 starsWournos | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2007 | aids, hiv, science, epidemiology
    HIV's path out of Africa: Haiti, the US then the world

    Quoted: PhysOrg news: HIV's path out of Africa: Haiti, the US then the world. The AIDS virus entered the United States via Haiti, probably arriving in just one person in about 1969, earlier than previously believed, according to new research. After the virus, HIV-1, entered the U.S., it flourished and spread worldwide.

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