Eighty-four-year-old Tu Youyou arrived in Sweden on Friday to collect China's first Nobel Prize in medicine for creating an anti-malarial drug that saved millions of people across the world. Half a century ago, the pharmacologist derived ...
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 7 and ends on Dec 22. During Major Snow, the snow becomes heavy and begins to accumulate on ...
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New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has issued a statement warning of a potential Hepatitis A risk associated with imported frozen berries. The warning comes after four diagnoses of Hepatitis A thought to be linked ...
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California-based Taylor Farms Pacific is recalling products containing celery and onions over fear of these products containing E. coli 0157:H7, a bacterium that causes diarrheal illnesses. The discovery came to light when samples ...
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The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared that 19 people from seven states have been sickened due to the outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 associated with the consumption of Costo rotisserie ...
Panasonic Corporation announced that it donated 3,000 solar lanterns to United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for use in Ebola affected regions. These lanterns have started to be distributed in 3 West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, ...
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An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
The Center for Disease Prevention (CDC), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have issued a warning to food companies to be more proactive in preventing food-borne diseases after a new data shows ...
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Sixty-five years after the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), an upcoming TV series pays homage to the martyrs and veterans of that conflict. The 38th Parallel, a 40-episode drama named after the ...
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In 2014, the Ministry of Commerce sincerely implemented the spirits of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the third and fourth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, persisted in seeking progress ...
Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Spokesman Sun Jiwen commented on the progress of implementing the Chinese government’s fourth round of aid at a value of 500 million yuan to west African countries in coping with Ebola announced ...
Recently, a cholera epidemic stroke South Sudan. In order to express Chinese government and its people’s comfort and support to the people in South Sudan and help Sudan government control the outbreak as soon as possible, the Chinese ...
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An investigation of the outbreak of Salmonella Poona infections across multiple states in US has caused recall of imported cucumbers. According to the figures of Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Salmonella Poona ...
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Harrisvaccines has been granted a USDA conditional license for the company’s avian influenza vaccine, RNA. This is the first conditional license for the highly pathogenic avian influenza that swept across the Midwest in the spring of ...
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The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong has imposed a ban on poultry meat imports from Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam over bird flu outbreak. This comes after the World Organisation for ...
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