Quarantine

Brown Moth Triggers Sonoma Vineyard Quarantine

Wine Spectator (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Agriculture officials will inspect all grapes leaving area for infestation

The Andromeda Strain Infects A&E [TV for Movie Lovers]

Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

This Memorial Day A&E would like you to ditch the celebrations and quarantine yourself in front of a TV to catch their two night, four hour miniseries adaptation of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. The event will take place on Monday, May 26 and Tuesday May 27 from 9pm til ...

Cute and simple: wooden animal instruments

Babygadget (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Our daughter is just recuperating from a bout of chickenpox, and with stay-at-home dad going stir-crazy after five days of quarantine, I popped into our local toyshop to see what I could take home to cheer them both up....

Nearly 15,000 Poultry Culled In Seoul To Prevent Bird Flu

VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

South Korea on Monday slaughtered and buried around 15,000 poultry in Seoul to prevent further spreading of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the capital. Quarantine officials reported culling chickens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys raised in farms, restaurants, schools and homes in the capital. Monday's culling resulted from a second case of bird flu confirmed in Seoul on Sunday, less than a week...

• All poultry culled in Seoul to curb spread of bird flu - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• All poultry killed in Seoul in bird-flu outbreak - Denver Post
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Trailerrific: Teens, Chimps and Babysitters

Miss Geeky (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Quarantine There haven't been that many good horror movies lately, but Quarantine might turn that tide. It's an American remake of the Spanish movie [Rec] and stars Jennifer Carpenter (Debra Morgan on Dexter) and Jay Hernandez (Six Degrees, Hostel). The movie’s about a hazmat team investigating a quarantined apartment complex and find there a camera depicting [...]

South African Tourist Whose Death Caused Train Quarantine Died of Fatal Blood Clot

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

By THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - The Ontario coroner's office says a South African woman whose death sparked a full-scale health scare was killed by a blood clot. Dr. William Lucas says 43-year-old Brenda Buckley died of a pulmonary embolism.

Quarantine – Rec Remade

Forever Geek (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

I’m not sure how wide a release Rec received in the US, but here in the UK it got a smaller release than it deserved. Rec, in case you didn't hear, is a unique take on the zombie movie. It is shot in the same way as Cloverfield, from a hand held video camera. This [...]

Quality of cosmetics reaches 99.7%

People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

A spot check on cosmetics, conducted by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China, revealed that the quality of material products reached 99.7%, reported by Xinhua Net. The spot check tested o ...

400 to Go Home After Quarantine

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

IPOH: Some 400 National Service trainees and their trainers, held under quarantine at the PLKN Jiwa Murni Camp in Semanggol, some 100km from here, were allowed to return home yesterday.

How to Make a Gentle Aquarium Siphon or Vacuum

How to of the Day (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

Siphons (or gravel vacuums) are a great way to get rid of debris in an aquarium. A 'gentle' siphon, while slower than a normal siphon, is great for small tanks, quarantine or hospital tanks and tanks with fry, small fish or sick fish. As an added bonus they are very cheap and easy to make.

Japan's plans for a pandemic

H5N1 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

An editorial in The Japan Times: Coping with new strains of flu. Excerpt: The Diet has passed revisions to the Infectious Disease Law and the Quarantine Law to effectively cope with a possible outbreak of new types of influenza. There...

Coping with new strains of flu

Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

The Diet has passed revisions to the Infectious Disease Law and the Quarantine Law to effectively cope with a possible outbreak of new types of influenza. There is fear that deadly new types of... Read more ...

Quarantine train arrives in Toronto

News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

A Canadian train arrived in Toronto 12 hours late Saturday after being released from a quarantine imposed following the death of an elderly passenger.The train was stopped in Foleyet, a small town in Ontario, Friday. Several passengers had complained of flu-like symptoms.Medical workers determined after examining the sick passengers that no one around them had become infected and cleared the train...

Tests show no disease outbreak on Canadian train

JournalHome.com Free Blog Host (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Lab exams confirmed on revolver that there was no toxic disease tumult on a cross-Canada train that was held in quarantine on Friday in northern Ontario after a passenger aboard died. More: - From the site

Tests show no disease outbreak on Canadian train

Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

TORONTO (Reuters) - Lab exams confirmed on Saturday that there was no infectious disease outbreak on a cross-Canada train that was held in quarantine on Friday in northern Ontario after a passenger aboard died.