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FBIS3-22124_0 | European Cogeneration Technology Association Established | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Environment - Six Member States Set up Cogen Europe (Association for promotion of cogeneration technology (CHP) throughout Europe)"; as released by Brussels Textline database] [Text] The Cogen Europe association has been set up to promote the implementation thr... |
FBIS3-22133_0 | Paper Conducts, Reports Pollution Investigation Threat to Health | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Tony Dawe: "A TIMES Investigation Into Pollution and the Health of a Nation: Millions Face Air of Despair"] [Text] The threat to the nation's health from increasing air pollution has prompted charities, research scientists, doctors and MPs to launch a concerted campaign fo... |
FBIS3-22135_1 | Ozone Level Over Britain Reported at Record Low | thins, environmentalists and medical researchers fear that the levels of skin cancer will rise. The UN has predicted that a 10 per cent decrease in the ozone layer will lead to 300,000 more skin cancers a year and 1.75 million cataracts. Dr John Pyle of Cambridge University, chairman of the ozone review group, said thi... |
FBIS3-22136_1 | UK Ratifies Basel Convention On Hazardous Waste | on 8 May. The EC will also become a Party on 8 May.'' "The Convention provides a framework for states to control shipments of hazardous waste. Where these do occur, the onus is on the exporting state to ensure environmentally sound management of the wastes. Shipments are not allowed between Parties and non- Parties wit... |
FBIS3-22145_0 | Report Questions Ban on Phosphate Detergents | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Daniel Green article: "Errors In the Name of Ecology"] [Text] Could two decades of environmental policy have been mistaken? Have the US, Germany, Switzerland and many other countries unnecessarily forced changes on their industries and consumers in the name of ecology? Yes, according... |
FBIS3-22145_1 | Report Questions Ban on Phosphate Detergents | of the U.S. But the two authors insist that they have been independent and objective. Their credentials help: one is Bryn Jones, once director of lobby group Greenpeace, the other is Bob Wilson, formerly a senior lecturer in statistics. They also claim that their report breaks new ground in thc controversial area of li... |
FBIS3-22148_1 | Environment Secretary on Improving Air Quality But Let Me Outline Now What I Believe Should Be the Key Elements. | measures mean that we have seen a progressive improvement in the quality of our air which should continue over the next decade. But new concerns are emerging. As increasing evidence becomes available of possible links between air pollution and respiratory disease, we need to continue to question whether enough is being... |
FBIS3-22150_0 | Survey Blames Township Enterprises for Pollution Problem | Language: English Article Type:BFN [``CD News'' report: ``Rural Firms to Blame for Nation's Polluation''] [Text] Township industries are seriously polluting the air and water in Tianjin, Shanghai and Beijing, according to the National Environmental Protection Agency. Rural enterprises are also pumping out massive amoun... |
FBIS3-22151_0 | Increased Industrial Efficiency Helps Reduce Pollution | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: ``Efficiency Helps Cut Pollution''] [Text] To prevent environmental degradation while still striving for economic growth, China should raise industrial efficiency and reform industrial structures, said Qu Geping, the country's top environmental legislator. Heavy ... |
FBIS3-22152_0 | China Bans Sea Dumping of Radioactive Waste | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Feb 18 (XINHUA) -- Beginning Sunday, China will ban dumping of all kinds of radioactive wastes and disposal of industrial waste and incineration of industrial waste and sewage sludge in its sea waters, a Chinese official said here today. According to Yang Wenhe, deputy... |
FBIS3-22161_0 | Ministry Reports Drop in Volume of Nonindustrial Waste | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Feb 22 KYODO -- The average amount of nonindustrial waste per capita in Japan decreased marginally in fiscal 1991 for the first time in eight years in what the Health and Welfare Ministry said Tuesday [22 February] could be the start of a new trend. The ministry said the... |
FBIS3-22167_0 | Paper Decries Plan To Dam Salween River | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Karen are Thailand's ecological conscience. And if Thailand's ambitious plans to build dams on border rivers are seen through, the Karen could soon weigh heavily on Thailand's humanitarian conscience. Living among the river valleys on the border between Thailand and Burma, ... |
FBIS3-22167_3 | Paper Decries Plan To Dam Salween River | development aid institutions. The Upper and Lower Salween Dams are expected to cost around Bt100 million. With the World Bank turning away from other large-scale hydro projects such as the Narmada in India, it's not at all clear where the money will come from. More to the point, it's not at all clear where the Karen li... |
FBIS3-22168_0 | Yala Province Mines Blamed for Pattani River Pollution | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Pattani River has been found to be highly contaminated by such toxic heavy metals as cadmium and arsenic, which come from mining activities in Yala Province. Research conducted by a team of lecturers at the Prince of Songkla University since 1992 has indicated that the amou... |
FBIS3-22171_0 | Memorandum on Water Management Signed With Australia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Thailand and Australia yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding [MoU] to exchange information and experience on water resources management for Thailand to adapt for the future use of the Mekong River, according to the Science and Technology Ministry's Department of Nation... |
FBIS3-22180_1 | Capital Lacks Water Treatment Plant | even possess a sewage treatment system, and the population is forced to use water contaminated by feces and industrial wastes, without any sign that the government is seeking ways to resolve this health problem. The foregoing is part of the presentation on contamination of the environment offered yesterday [7 Nov 1993]... |
FBIS3-22181_1 | Contamination of San Pedro Sula's Rivers Described | treatment plants for residual waters. Based on a preliminary study conducted by DIMA, in 1991 the municipality of San Pedro Sula passed an ordinance that requested businessmen whose firms discarded wastes into the Bermejo, Blanco, and Sauce Rivers to seek ways to treat those wastes in order not to contaminate the river... |
FBIS3-22190_0 | Central Asian States Revive Interest in Siberian River Diversion | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Khasan Iskandarov: ``Ecology: Will Tashkent Become Port City? Idea of Diverting Siberian Rivers Seems To Have Captured Masses' Imagination Again''] [Text] The intensive contacts among the presidents of the former Central Asian republics that have characterized the start of... |
FBIS3-22192_0 | Association Uses Unique Method To Process Nuclear Waste | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN (Video report by correspondent Sergey Sergeyev, identified by caption, from the ``Novosti'' newscast] [Text] Sergeyev: [Video shows people working with various types of machinery and containers, a storage area, a room with control panels and computer screens] This is a section that tu... |
FBIS3-22194_1 | Environment Minister Sees `No Improvement' in Russia's Ecology | current environmental situation in Russia with 1992, one unfortunately find that it is not improving and remains very acute,'' stated Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, minister of environmental protection and natural resources, who held a conference with selected regional representatives at year's end. Incidentally, it was note... |
FBIS3-22199_0 | Environment Ministry Denies Danger From Industrial Waste | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Veronika Romanenkova] [Text] Moscow, Feb 1 TASS -- Reports claiming Russia has turned into ``grounds for dumping dangerous industrial waste from Western nations are unjustified,'' says a statement of the Russian Environment Ministry's press service circulat... |
FBIS3-22213_5 | Academicians' Claims Regarding History of River Diversion Project Disputed | VODNYYE RESURSY magazine (No. 3, pp 4-6): ``It is proposed to carry out the water supply of the southern rayons at the expense of the more complete use of local resources and the bringing in of the runoff of the country's northern slope (drainage areas of the Kara, White, and Barents seas), that is, at the expense of t... |
FBIS3-22214_11 | Historical Causes of Russia's Present Ecological Crisis Examined | their private owners, including the Romanov dynasty, and become truly the people's property. That was precisely how Soviet slogans and decrees framed the issue. And what happened? What happened was that all that wealth wound up in the hands of the party elite, which not only had complete control of the country's entire... |
FBIS3-22216_0 | Detonation Suggested as Nuclear Waste Disposal Method | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Yuriy Lvov report: ``Nuclear Waste Will Be Destroyed by Explosions''] [Text] This news is not for those of a nervous disposition: It is possible that in the foreseeable future all Russia's radioactive waste and chemical weapons will be destroyed...by nuclear explosion. By several exp... |
FBIS3-22219_7 | Radioactive Waste Dumping in World's Seas by Russia, Other Countries Detailed | which will be practiced in this region until the end of next year, will also not pose a hazard. We may even not consider this waste as being radioactive.'' Nevertheless, according to Kutsenko himself, an ecological threat really does hang over the Far East. But the reason for it, as it turns out, is not the radioactive... |
FBIS3-22226_0 | Treaty Signed With Poland To Control Toxic Waste Shipments | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Oles Buzyna: ``Henceforth, Ukraine and Poland Are Allies''] [Text] The Ukrainian and Polish ministers of environmental protection signed an agreement in Warsaw on cooperation in controlling shipments of hazardous waste. Poland faced this problem a couple of years before Ukr... |
FBIS3-22247_0 | More Effective Waste Water Treatment With Biogas Reactor | Language: German Article Type:CSO [Article by JB: ``More Effective Waste Water Treatment With the Biogas Tower Reactor''] [Text] Anaerobic biotechnical waste water treatment in bioreactors is today already being used by the food industry, pulp production and paper manufacturing companies. The field of bioprocessing tec... |
FBIS3-22248_1 | Technical, Economic Improvements in Wind Energy Projects | these sites wind energy plants could be functioning even without state funding within 5 to 7 years at most and be ``commercially successful.'' That is why more and more professional investors are getting involved with wind power along with the communes and associations of environmentalist citizens. Even banks have disc... |
FBIS3-22248_2 | Technical, Economic Improvements in Wind Energy Projects | out of the sails of the wind power movement. The socalled ``Large Wind Energy Plant,'' popularly known as ``Growian,'' was shut down in 1987 after a four-year test run because of technical flaws. After the failure of the three-megawatt generator and the dropping of the project by the disappointed major companies the in... |
FBIS3-22249_0 | Arguments for Toxic Waste Incinerator Cited | Article Type:CSO [Article: ``Pollution -- the Burning Question''] [Text] It is an uncomfortable fact that industry's upside of creating jobs has a necessary downside of polluting the environment. Because of that discomfort, the issue of how effectively to deal with hazardous toxic waste produced by industry has been fu... |
FBIS3-22250_3 | Biological Degradability of Polymers | standardization bodies such as the European CEN [European Committee for Standardization], and the Dutch Standardization Institute, NNI. These efforts have led to a number of standardization tests for four different features: anaerobic or aerobic, wet or dry. ATO has in the meantime made these tests commercially availab... |
FBIS3-22257_0 | Expert Criticizes Environmental Record | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Charles Clover, environment editor: ``Government's `Green' Record Is Attacked by Its Own Expert''] [Text] The Government's ``green'' economics guru broke ranks yesterday to attack its environmental record, criticising the £23 billion road-building programme and failure to ... |
FBIS3-22272_1 | Work Conference Announces Environmental Cleanup Plan | respected by the plan. The measures for cleaning up an ever more polluted China are part of a National Environmental Protection Agency (Nepa) programme which will run up to 1998. The World Bank, the Asia Development Bank and global environmental foundations will be asked to help finance domestic waste control projects.... |
FBIS3-22273_0 | Environment Official Yang Interviewed on Coal Use | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Robert J. Saiget] [Text] Beijing, Feb 17 KYODO -- China's growing coal consumption poses a huge threat to the environment, a leading Chinese official said recently, and things are bound to get worse as the country struggles to generate enough energy to fuel its booming economy. ``... |
FBIS3-22273_1 | Environment Official Yang Interviewed on Coal Use | a major contributor to the global warming or ``greenhouse effect,'' and sulfur dioxide (So2), the main cause of acid rain, which destroys the nutritional value of soil and pollutes rivers and lakes. ``As far as I'm concerned, laws are the only way to restrict the rapid development of the coal industry. We can also use ... |
FBIS3-22274_4 | Environmental Report Roundup 24 Jan-12 Feb | and foreign companies, they said. The delegates added that most rivers in the region have been shown to be polluted with mercury and lead. "There is abundant evidence that the disease pattern of the Urhobo population has changed from the traditional malaria and pneumonia to diseases of the respiratory tract, central ne... |
FBIS3-22289_0 | Efforts To Recycle Used, Waste Materials Increased | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Wuhan, Mar 5 (XINHUA) -- China has stepped up efforts to recycle used and waste materials so as to stem the worsening resources shortage and environmental pollution. According to information from the Ministry of Internal Trade, a comprehensive waste-recycling system has taken s... |
FBIS3-22300_1 | Statement Rejects South Dumping Nuclear Waste | that the South Korean puppets dumped into the sea, will bring to the ecosystem and the frightening catastrophes it will inflict on the South Korean people, in addition to fellow countrymen and mankind in general. As is well known, if nuclear waste materials are dumped into the sea, they will contaminate or kill fish, s... |
FBIS3-22301_0 | Government To Join Basel Convention on Waste Control | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, Mar 1 (YONHAP) -- The South Korean Government sent an application to United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali Monday to join the Basel Convention, which controls trans-boundary movements and disposal of hazardous waste. South Korea will be regulated by the ... |
FBIS3-22311_0 | Prime Minister Issues Directive on Trash Disposal | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [Text] On 7 February, the Government Office issued Instruction 658-NC on measures dealing with illegal dumping of waste and garbage in Ho Chi Minh City. The prime minister has instructed the Ministry of Interior to coordinate with the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Scienc... |
FBIS3-22312_2 | Southern Cone Environmental Issues | face the same difficulties: the delay in supplying funds, bureaucracy, small disagreements among groups, the lack of ongoing action, and fishing vessels. Meteorologist Rubens Junqueira Villela says that despite the difficulties Brazil "already has carried out a valuable task in the region, including geological research... |
FBIS3-22317_0 | Oil Spills Endanger Indian Maritime Zone | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] Off the Malabar coast, Jan 21--The Indian maritime zone has become highly suspectible to ecological and environmental degradation with the increase in the movement of oil tankers often resulting in oil spills. About 2,000 super tankers carry oil from overseas sources to India w... |
FBIS3-22333_0 | Government Options for Radioactive Waste Disposal Viewed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Veronika Romanenkova] [Text] Moscow Feb 24 TASS--If facilities for recycling liquid radioactive waste is not built in Russia's Far East within the next two months, Russia will possibly have to dump this waste in the Sea of Japan again in order to avert an e... |
FBIS3-22339_5 | Serious Consequences Foreseen in Possible Disbandment of State Committee | their actual value. For example, it would never occur to anyone that to send children to vacation in Australia--at the expense of their hosts, of course--would mean to give them at least another annual dose which they would receive during the flight. Incidentally, it would be naive to think that transoceanic voyages an... |
FBIS3-22344_1 | New Year's Pipeline `Disaster' Result of `Irresponsibility' | Article Type:BFN [Report by Iryna Andriychuk and Oleksandr Havrosh: "New Year 'Oil Presents' From Santa Claus"] [Excerpts] Who said that Ukraine lacks oil? At least, on New Year's Eve, our state literally poured diesel fuel to Slovakia. However, it was not our fault. An accident on the oil pipeline close to Polyana in ... |
FBIS3-22347_1 | Environment Minister Gives Qualified Support to Nuclear Power | of the United States, where the majority of nuclear stations belong to private companies. It shows that the cost of the electricity produced by nuclear power stations is approximately one and a half times higher than that produced by stations which use gas or coal. And this is in addition to the fact that in the United... |
FBIS3-22349_0 | Country's Industrial Waste Said To Occupy 130,000 Hectares | Language: Ukrainian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report published under the rubric "Fact"] [Text] As reported by Vilyam Zadorskyy, head of chair of chemical and ecological technology at the Chemical and Technological University and president of the Dnieper Region Ecological Fund, Ukraine occupies a leading place in t... |
FBIS3-22350_1 | European Consortium Engaged in Chemical Recycling | be recycled into lean materials which usually end up as flower pots or roadside poles. The market for such products is small and is nearly saturated. A not yet socially acceptable alternative for materials recycling is the recovery of its energy content by combustion. Smaller Pieces "Back to feedstock" (or chemical rec... |
FBIS3-22351_0 | European Consortium Perfects Plastic Waste Sorting System | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "High-Speed Sorter for Plastic Parts"] [Text] A consortium of European companies and research organisations has won a research contract worth nearly Ecu 1.5m from the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) to develop a system for the identification and sep... |
FBIS3-22368_1 | Roundup of Environmental Reports 3 February - 17 March | as well as the Kentikrono, Wewe, Susan, and Aboabo Rivers. Mrs. Esi Awuah, environmental biologist at the university, says the oxygen levels in these rivers are depleting to such an extent that they are "gradually losing their ability to contain higher forms of life." Mrs. Awuah stated most industries near Atonsu, wher... |
FBIS3-22369_2 | Northeast of Country Works To Protect Water Resources | from northeast China's provinces and one autonomous region and 12 ministries and commissions under the central government, and its jurisdiction was enlarged to cover both the Songhua and the Liaohe Rivers. Years of practice have proven such a trans-regional leading organization is effective in cleaning up and controlli... |
FBIS3-22380_1 | National Program for Water and Soil Conservation Approved | to go by in carrying out the work. Soil erosion in China, which is enormous in magnitude and covers vast tracks of territory, has inflicted great harm on the country. It has brought about long-term low yields and poverty to localities, and even is endangering the subsistence of the masses of people in some localities. ... |
FBIS3-22391_0 | Government Launches Manila Bay Rehabilitation Program | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Elena L. Aben] [Text] The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the Metro Manila Authority (MMA) yesterday launched a program aimed at rehabilitating the diminishing marine resources of the Manila Bay, once considered among the richest fishing grounds ... |
FBIS3-22391_1 | Government Launches Manila Bay Rehabilitation Program | Mathay Jr., and Las Pinas Mayor Gabriel Casimiro led national and local officials in signing a covenant to support the Coastal Environment Program (CEP). The project, which cover the 24-kilometer coast from Las Pinas to Navotas was launched at the Santo Nino [Holy Child] Island off the Coastal Road. The covenant noted ... |
FBIS3-22400_0 | Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Said To Raise Concerns | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["NATION report" by James Fahn] [Text] The companies planning to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from an offshore field in Burma to Thailand have for the first time revealed the route the pipeline will take. Human rights and environmental groups fear that its construction wi... |
FBIS3-22403_0 | Government Discusses Disposal of Radioactive Waste | Language: Slovak Article Type:BFN [TA SR report: "State of Radioactive Waste"] [Excerpts] Bratislava -- At its meeting yesterday, the Government of the Slovak Republic discussed, and took note of, the "Concept of Disposing of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power Generating Facilities and Other Workplaces With Sources o... |
FBIS3-22419_0 | Environment Ministry Terms Greenpeace Report `Disinformation' | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Text of Minprirody of Russia press service announcement "Greenpeace, To Put It Mildly, Is Wrong"; with commentary] [Text] In late 1993 the Russian branch of Greenpeace distributed a report entitled "Russia: "A Dump for Western Wastes." Following that articles with similar content app... |
FBIS3-22420_3 | Greenpeace Report Details Toxic Waste Imports From West | former Eastern Bloc, which are not considered developing countries. Such a choice, which makes it possible to turn a country such as Russia, which is undergoing a serious economic and ecological crisis, into a dump, is immoral. Russia has enough of its own ecological problems. Aggravating them with waste from the West ... |
FBIS3-22420_4 | Greenpeace Report Details Toxic Waste Imports From West | waste in another state whose government consents to it and where it can be done free of charge or at nominal cost. Very often officials receive bribes to do this. Frequently the middlemen try to sell the importing country equipment to eliminate the waste -- a garbage burning plant or facility for disposing of the waste... |
FBIS3-22421_8 | White Book Issued on Moscow Environmental Conditions | 6.9 1988 13.1 12.0 +1.1 5.3 5.5 1989 11.8 12.4 -0.6 3.9 4.0 1990 10.5 12.8 -2.3 2.2 2.3 1991 9.2 12.9 -3.7 0.7 0.6 Attention: Counterfeit! [by A. I. Leontyev] Not only money but even Karavayev therapeutic balms are being counterfeited. Almost 3 years ago the Public Fund To Promote Research and Initiatives of Citizens o... |
FBIS3-22423_0 | Ufa Inhabitants' Health Endangered by Dioxin | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report under "Nature Conservation" rubric: "Ufa Remains a Place Dangerous to Life"] [Text] Research by scientists has shown that in individual parts of Ufa the maximum permissible concentrations of an extremely toxic substance -- dioxin -- in the air exceed the norm by t... |
FBIS3-22429_1 | Duma Ecology Committee Chairman Reviews Environmental Priorities | situation; essentially the indigenous peoples of Russia are dying out. The scientific research of prestigious scientists, in particular American and Japanese scientists, shows that 40 percent of the children born in recent times are already ill. What will happen to them later, in their adult lives? Generally two-thirds... |
FBIS3-22430_0 | Scientist Sees Radiation Danger in Areas Considered Safe by IAEA | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Mikhail Dmitruk: "Surprises of the `Peaceful Atom': The Insidious Trail of Iodine-131"] [Text] Many people could be exposed to radiation in regions the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Authority] considers suitable for human habitation. This is the disturbing conclusion o... |
FBIS3-22430_1 | Scientist Sees Radiation Danger in Areas Considered Safe by IAEA | Then why did local inhabitants, contrary to the expectations of the nuclear scientists, suffer radiation injuries? The independent experts had no explanation. It was not until two years later than Boris Karasev found the reason. He went to the regions affected by the Chernobyl disaster each year to study the content an... |
FBIS3-22432_0 | Waste Burning Facility Said Planned Near Gomel | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by RID correspondent Yuriy Leshkevich: "Fire Will Help"] [Text] As of today, Belarus has only two waste processing factories: in Minsk and Mogilev. However, their low capacity does not resolve the problem with the utilization of consumer waste which sounds extremely acute in t... |
FBIS3-22447_0 | Liability Fund for Hazardous Waste Exports Criticized | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] The proposed creation of a liability fund for illegal waste transportation to be financed by industry, now being debated in connection with the incorporation of the Basel Convention into German law, has met with considerable criticism among representatives of industry and the wa... |
FBIS3-22451_0 | Britain To Review How it Disposes of Nuclear Waste | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Charles Clover report: "Nuclear Waste Review Likely To Delay Sell-off"] [Text] Plans for disposing of nuclear waste, much of it in temporary storage at sites around Britain, are to be reviewed, possibly delaying privatisation of the nuclear power industry. The plans were strongly cri... |
FBIS3-22457_0 | More on Level of AIDS, HIV | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Lidiya Ivchenko: "Education Is the Most Reliable Means of Combating AIDS at Present"] [Text] World AIDS Day has been marked for the sixth time, drawing universal attention to the terrible disease which has struck at least 14-15 million inhabitants of the planet. It is no co... |
FBIS3-22459_0 | Academician Denies Existence of International Black Market for Organs | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] A Russian academician has publicly denied a Canadian film's charges that he offered human organs for sale. A Russian press report gives detailed explanations why the accusations are medically and logistically improbable. In a KOMMERSANT-DAILY article (23 Nov 93), Academician Valeriy ... |
FBIS3-22463_1 | Papers Report Problems in Health Service Management Growth in Expenses | this year -- an increase of £468 million or 1,800 per cent. An analysis of the figures by Labour show that annual bureaucratic costs -- including administration, clerical and management costs -- have risen over the same period from £1.44 billion to £3.02 billion, an increase of 110 percent. The proportion of spending o... |
FBIS3-22465_0 | Papers Report Problems in Health Service Management New Guidelines | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Chris Mihill, medical correspondent: "NHS Bosses Warned on Ethics as Bottomley Issues New Code"] [Text] Health service chairmen, chief executives and other board members are being warned not to use their positions to further personal business interests in new codes of cond... |
FBIS3-22467_0 | `Devastating' Impact of Asthma Highlighted | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Victoria Macdonald, health correspondent: "Children Suffer in Silence From Scourge of Asthma"] [Text] The devastating impact of childhood asthma on sufferers and their families and the high cost of its treatment will be highlighted this week with the release of the largest... |
FBIS3-22470_1 | Roundup of Disease Reports for 22 Jan - 10 Feb | AIDS, according to Professor (Eglar), head of the Department of Microbiology of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, at a lecture organized by the Kogi State Medical Students Association. Prof. (Eglar) explained that in every one minute, two females are infected with the HIV virus, adding that 73 people died last year from ... |
FBIS3-22470_4 | Roundup of Disease Reports for 22 Jan - 10 Feb | federal government, have taken steps to prevent new districts being affected, the paper said. Anambra State's governor, Colonel Mike Attah, told the paper that the government has provided large quantities of vaccines to carry out a major prevention campaign. Yellow fever is characterized by hemorrhages, jaundice and vo... |
FBIS3-22470_5 | Roundup of Disease Reports for 22 Jan - 10 Feb | provided large quantities of vaccines to carry out a major prevention campaign. Yellow fever is characterized by hemorrhages, jaundice and vomiting. [Lagos Radio Nigeria Network in English 0600 GMT 29 Jan 94] Yellow fever -- In Anambra State, 108 persons are reported to have died during an outbreak of yellow fever in I... |
FBIS3-22471_0 | Epidemiological Reports Monitored 7 - 13 Feb | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Following is a compilation of reports monitored by FBIS Mbabane Bureau from 7 to 13 February concerning outbreaks of and reports on various diseases. Items are listed by country and disease. The source follows each item. LESOTHO AIDS -- The superintendent of Queen Elizabeth II Hospit... |
FBIS3-22474_0 | Birim North District Has High Yaws Incidence | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Kwaku Tsen] [Text] Superstition has been identified as the major contributory factory to the prevalence of yaws in the Birim North District of the Eastern Region. A source close to the New Abirem Health Centre told the GRAPHIC that even though c300 is charged for the full ... |
FBIS3-22475_0 | In North, 32 Percent of Inpatients Have Malaria | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] Deaths due to malaria infection in the Northern Region is now 28.5 percent with children and pregnant mothers being the most vulnerable groups. A survey conducted by the Regional Health Administration between 1989 and 1993 indicates that 32 percent of ward admissions are due to... |
FBIS3-22479_0 | Sterilized Tsetseflies Being Bred for Control | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by I.K. MacArthur] [Text] The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) is currently breeding a large number of tsetseflies for a biological control programme to check tsetsefly infestation in the country. The commission, at the moment, has more than 10,000 adult females, a numbe... |
FBIS3-22481_0 | New Leprosy Cases Sharply Reduced | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Pamphil Kweyuh and Alex Diang'a: "Kenya May Soon Conquer Leprosy"] [Excerpt] Kenya is well advanced in the World Health Organisation-initiated efforts to conquer leprosy by the year 2000, researchers have learned. Dr. Daniel Kibuga, head of the National Tuberculosis and Le... |
FBIS3-22482_0 | Fifty-Five Measles Deaths in Chama, E. Province | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Excerpt] Fifty-five people have died of measles in Chama in Eastern Province since the outbreak of the disease in January. Provincial medical officer Dr. Godfrey Chishimba said 978 cases of measles had been recorded and the death toll could be higher because some occurred in remote a... |
FBIS3-22485_0 | Anti-AIDS Campaign Reduces STD Cases | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] Masvingo's Gutu District, which has become notorious for its unusually high incidences of STD, has slashed its levels of infection by 1,000 cases every year, a health officer has said. The district nursing officer, Sister Winnie Fadzai Mavedzenge, last week said incidences of s... |
FBIS3-22492_0 | Study Says 100,000-400,000 Infected With AIDS Virus | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "International Report" program] [Text] Burma is on the brink of an AIDS [Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome] explosion that could rival the problems experienced in neighboring India and Thailand. New studies revealed that Burma has the world's highest prevalence of the AIDS... |
FBIS3-22493_4 | Pasteur Institue Reports AIDS Findings | HIV positive case was diagnosed in Cambodia in June 1991, such tests were not previously available here so it's impossible to tell when the first Cambodian contracted the disease. Several patients are already showing signs of AIDS related complaints. [passage omitted] She adds that the lack of visible symptoms in HIV p... |
FBIS3-22494_1 | Doctor Reports on Fake Drugs, Attitudes on AIDS | condoms. "I tell them they will need some people to support them when they get AIDS and if there is ever some drug, they will know very soon and can cure themselves." Last month, Dr. Ouk and her male colleague saw 193 patients (more than 25 percent of them commercial sex workers) and treated 102 sexually transmitted di... |
FBIS3-22494_3 | Doctor Reports on Fake Drugs, Attitudes on AIDS | paying off their parents' gambling debts. "They think if they are rich and they have enough money they will go back and married to a good man. If they have gold and good clothes it will be easy to find a man to marry when they go back." If a prostitute gets pregnant, her brothel usually arranges an abortion for her. A ... |
FBIS3-22496_2 | Malaria Estimates, Strains Reported | a French agency, Action Internationale Contre Faim (AICF). Although only recently introduced in the northwest, mefloquine (marketed in Thailand as Lariam) is following a pattern set in Thailand in the 1980's; parasites present in the blood of more than half the patients in one AICF study showed resistance to the drug. ... |
FBIS3-22501_0 | Rates of HIV Pregnancies Increasing | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Unattributed report: "AIDS Spreads in Seven Provinces of the South, Pregnant Women Have High Incidence"] [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] Dr. Anan Sulaiman, Director of the Area 12 Health Center, said that the increase in AIDS among women and children in the seven lower provinces of the Sout... |
FBIS3-22502_0 | Health Committee Cites AIDS Figures | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Unattributed report: "Every Government Unit Needed To Battle AIDS"] [Excerpt] Dr. Wichai Chaichitwanitkun, an MP from Udon Thani of the New Aspiration Party spoke to reporters as Vice-chairman of the Public Health Commission. He said that at the meeting of those involved with AIDS from ... |
FBIS3-22503_0 | Over 2,000 AIDS Cases; 21 Deaths | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Excerpt] Dr. Phuchong Wiraphlin, the public health officer in Phrae Province, talked about the AIDS situation in Phrae Province. He said that there are now 2,041 people with AIDS, and 21 have died. A report issued by the Social Medicine Data Section, Phrae Hospital, stated that the larg... |
FBIS3-22505_0 | Nakhon Sawan Dengue Worsens | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Unattributed report: "Severe Outbreak of Dengue in Nakhon Sawan, Public Health Claims Control"] [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] Dr. Thawat Suntharachan of the Nakhon Sawan Province public health organization told MATICHON that the statistics for the spread of dengue fever in Nakhon Sawan Pr... |
FBIS3-22506_0 | Flooding May Increase Risk of Dengue Fever | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Unattributed report: "Serious Outbreak of Dengue Fever, "Nong Chok" Champion for Highest Number of Sick"] [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] Dr. Warawit Lepnak, Director of the Bangkok Health Office, said that heavy rains and flooding provided many breeding places for mosquitos and people coul... |
FBIS3-22508_0 | Province Sees Drop in Liver Fluke Cases | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Report by Ruangsak Lathainin: "Liver Flukes in Roi Et No Longer a Public Health Problem"] [Text] "Liver flukes" were a serious problem for the Northeast. From examining feces it was learned that 35 percent of the population had liver flukes. In Roi Et Province alone it was found that 42... |
FBIS3-22509_0 | Leprosy Cases Discussed, Treatment Noted | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Unattributed report: "Reducing Leprosy to One in 10,000"] [Text] S.N.Ph. Thira Ramsut, the Chairman of the Medical Prevention Group of Thailand and a doctor who was an expert in the treatment of leprosy, said that Thailand could reduce leprosy to one in 10,000 before the year 2000, the ... |
FBIS3-22510_0 | Report on Optometrical Hospital in Chiang Mai | Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Article by Siri Antharin] [Excerpts] Today, the number of people in the northern region of Thailand who have diseases of the eye, particularly cataracts, is increasing. But there are very few hospitals, either public or private, that are prepared to treat eye disorders. Moreover, there ... |
FBIS3-22511_0 | Data on Contagious Diseases Released | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:CSO [Text] Zagreb (HINA) -- The Epidemiological Service of the Croatian Public Health Institute reported that the number of contagious disease cases remain stable; the occurrence of influenza was confirmed on Saturday but it is not epidemic. In December, 2,513 fell ill from chicken... |
FBIS3-22514_2 | Regional Health Report 6-14 Jan | outbreaks has been the consumption of certain vegetables. (San Salvador EL DIARIO DE HOY in Spanish 11 Jan 94 pp 4, 31) Honduras Rabies -- Twenty-four people were bitten by rabid dogs in Choluteca Department during the first six days of 1994. The Natural Resources Secretariat has confirmed all the cases. (Tegucigalpa L... |
FBIS3-22516_4 | Population's AIDS Awareness Surveyed | method is use of a method that never fails, abstinence. A little over half the women believe fidelity is the best way to prevent disease; 28 percent believe in using a condom; and 24 percent in not having casual sexual relations. Surprisingly, 17 percent think AIDS can be prevented by avoiding contact with infected per... |
FBIS3-22518_0 | Growing Dengue Epidemic Confirmed | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Milena Fernandez] [Excerpt] Health authorities have confirmed that the country is facing an epidemic of dengue fever. They stated that at least 18 cases have been confirmed in Barranca and that there are another 500 cases where dengue fever is suspected (400 in Puntarenas ... |
FBIS3-22520_1 | Cholera, Malaria, Yellow Fever, TB Among Shipibos | this year owing to the lack of medications and specialized medical care. A delegation from the Association for the Development of the Shipibo-Conivo Culture, headed by coordinator Andres Castaneda Saavedra, arrived in the capital to explain this tragic situation to government officials. The coordinator told LA REPUBLIC... |
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