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FBIS3-60286_0
Danilov-Danilyan on Need for Environmental Aid From West
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO ["Abridged" interview with V.I. Danilov-Danilyan, minister of environmental protection and natural resources, by NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA correspondent D. Frolov under the rubric "Opinion. ZELENYY MIR Files"; place and date not given: "Russia in an Ecological Zugzwang"] [Text] Minister V.I...
FBIS3-60288_0
Danilov-Danilyan Concerned About Russia's Garbage Disposal Methods
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by S. Demin under the rubric "Ecology": "Burning Gold"] [Text] This is how V. Danilov-Danilyan, minister of environmental protection and natural resources of Russia, described the issue of garbage disposal in Russia and specifically in the Moscow region at a press conference ...
FBIS3-60290_0
Technology Developed To Extract Lead From Batteries
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Roman Gerasimov and Dmitry Kossakovsky; first paragraph MOSCOW NEWS comment] [Text] An ecologically pure technology of producing secondary metal has been developed at the Institute of Electro-Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. After the disintegration of the USS...
FBIS3-60296_0
Lack of Funds Hinders Safe Disposal of Liquid Nuclear Waste
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Funds are needed immediately if Russia is to dispose of liquid nuclear waste (LNW) safely. Their dumping into the sea was halted in response to international protest against the disposal of a small amount in the Sea of Japan on October 17. The authorities said that they had no ...
FBIS3-60309_6
Environment Minister on Ecological Aspects of National Security `The Scope of the Ecological Threat May Be Greater Than That of Any Aggression....' `A Perpetual-Motion Machine for Processing Natural Resources Into Waste' `We Will Not Accomplish Anything in the Absence of a Strong Policy of Environmental Protection' `If...
condition there. The intake of water to meet economic needs has been growing continuously. The runoff of many rivers is taken in full in years with low, and even average, water availability. The inclusion of small rivers into land reclamation systems and the thoughtless draining of marshlands have resulted in disruptio...
FBIS3-60318_3
Energy Policy To Stress Natural Gas, Renewable Sources
that all along," said Palmgren. "But the money we now pay to have our waste taken care of and processed in Tchelyabinsk also helps the Russians finance the cleanup of the area, which suffered heavy radioactive contamination in the 1950's." Palmgren thought the government had yielded to outside political pressure in for...
FBIS3-60322_3
1994 Budget Cuts Affect Environmental R&D
Georg Wagner of the SPD said, "It is not hard to see that the environment minister is once again the great loser. The actual environment and nature conservation sector has suffered a DM64- million or 3.3-percent cut in real terms. If we add the cuts suffered in the 1993 budget, the environment's share in the budget has...
FBIS3-60322_4
1994 Budget Cuts Affect Environmental R&D
creation schemes. About 15,000 people are usefully employed on reclamation work in the lignite mining industry. The federal and land governments spend DM2-3 billion a year on this item; this spending does not appear in my budget, but 75 percent of it is borne by the Federal Government. What matters is that we get the e...
FBIS3-60324_1
Solid Waste Recycling Capacity Summarized
the Environment directed a number of awareness programmes aimed at the elementary and secondary schools (approximately 10,000 students in all). The total quantity of source separated materials was as follows: -- Paper: 110 tons -- Aluminium: 10 tons -- Glass: 2 tons [Box] Consumption of Aluminium Cans as a Percentage o...
FBIS3-60325_0
`Huge' Increase in Toxic Waste Dumping Noted
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Tony O'Brien and Jerome Reilly: "Minister Warns on Toxic Waste"] [Text] Twenty five thousand tonnes of highly dangerous poisonous waste is being illegally dumped every year in this country -- and nobody knows where it is going, a government minister admitted yesterday. Env...
FBIS3-60326_5
Pigment Used Against Radioactive Contamination
years after the accident, we are starting to see some of the consequences. In Ukraine and Belarus, infantile thyroid gland cancer has increased dramatically, a survey conducted by the World Health Organization, WHO, showed. Since 1989, 225 new cases have been reported in Belarus, 157 in Ukraine. Normally there would on...
FBIS3-60328_2
Market Economy Cited in Decreased Kola Emissions
received full pay this fall. Previously the workers had contracts for five years or more. Now only a minority get a contract for more than a few months. Even people with a solid knowledge of Russia have difficulty explaining what is really happening in northwest Russia. On the one hand their industry seems to be marked...
FBIS3-60330_1
Pulp Industry Ahead of Schedule Reducing Emissions
is the largest source of pollution. But, there was also uneasiness concerning the more long-term accumulation of chlorine compounds on the sea floor, and in animals and people. Society registered its concern--the government through tough environmental measures, consumers through boycotting chlorine-bleached diapers, co...
FBIS3-60336_1
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
ensuring environmental safety and restoring the environment. This document is based on the Russian Federation law ``On Environmental Protection,'' decrees issued by the Government of the Russian Federation, decisions by the UN Conference on the Environment and Development (June 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), the Lucern...
FBIS3-60336_12
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
permissible emissions (discharges) of pollutants for basic technologies and types of production; -- to establish a special tax rate for products manufactured using environmentally hazardous technologies; -- to create a multilevel system of environmental protection insurance funds to finance the prevention and eliminati...
FBIS3-60336_42
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
of a stock-based exchange to engage in free trading in information and scientific and technical advances in the fields of production-related and consumption-related waste collection, transportation, utilization, and disposal; -- incentives for destatization of enterprises that collect and process waste; -- establishmen...
FBIS3-60336_48
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
restore disrupted environments. 3.6. Environmental Aspects of the Development of the Fuel and Energy Complex The priority of environmental efforts in the strategy to develop the fuel and energy complex results from that complex's very intensive negative effects on the environment. For example, enterprises in the fuel a...
FBIS3-60336_51
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
training and education that will encompass the entire process of preschool and school training and education, vocational training for specialists at secondary and higher educational institutions, and advanced training for such specialists with the aid of the mass media. The structure of this system of universal compreh...
FBIS3-60336_81
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
of space-based information support for forest fire protection efforts and monitoring of the forest fire situation, as well as a system for detecting and providing up-to-date information on fires as they occur, along with other operational information; -- establishment of a computer network and communications system of ...
FBIS3-60336_89
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
increase in the 1993-95 period in the amount of work done to improve the condition of small rivers, strict compliance with regulations governing water protection zones, and complete cessation of land cultivation in water protection zones along rivers and other bodies of water in the Volga-Caspian watershed; -- consider...
FBIS3-60336_93
Draft National Action Plan for Implementing UNCED Decisions Section 1. Development of a System for the Management of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection Section 3. Ensuring Environmental Safety in Economic Development Section 5. Priority Measures and Focuses of Environmental Restoration Section 6. Basic P...
structure and distribution of production facilities into accordance with the natural resource potential of the region in question and reducing the acuteness of the environmental situation. 5.2.3. The Sea of Azov Basin As a result of flow regulation along the Don and Kuban Rivers, intensive irrigation, and large volumes...
FBIS3-60341_0
Australia Provides Grant for River Management Project
Language: Indonesian Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Kompas -- Australia, through its International Development Aid Bureau (AIDAB), has provided a 6.1-million Australian dollar (8.3 billion rupiah) grant for planning and managing district rivers (DAS) in Noelmina, East Nusatenggara. A memorandum of understanding [thre...
FBIS3-60343_0
Japan Environmental News Update (1-15 September 1993) Kawasaki Heavy Industries To Provide Gas Turbine Technology to Indonesia
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Complete text of article obtained through NIKKEI BIZ DATABASE] [Text] Kawasaki Heavy Industries will provide production and maintenance technologies for gas turbines to two Indonesian public corporations including BARATA, a steel skeleton construction and heavy equipment manufacture...
FBIS3-60347_0
Japan Environmental News Update (1-15 September 1993) MITI To Dispatch Environment Advisors to Developing Nations
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Complete text of article obtained through NIKKEI BIZ DATABASE] [Text] The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is planning to expand its assistance to developing nations in the area of the environment. It has already included the creation of the "International Environ...
FBIS3-60350_0
Japan Environmental News Update (1-15 September 1993) Order for Environment-Related Equipment in July
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Complete text of article obtained through NIKKEI BIZ DATABASE] [Text] According to a report released by the Japan Society of Industrial Machinery Manufacturers (chairman: Kozaburo Nishimura) on 7 September, the orders for environment-related equipment received in July amounted to ¥1...
FBIS3-60351_0
Japan Environmental News Update (1-15 September 1993) Nittetsu Chemical Industry Develops Fixed Ammonia Decomposition Technology
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Complete text of article obtained through NIKKEI BIZ DATABASE] [Text] Nittetsu Chemical Industry (based in Minato Ward, Tokyo; president: Tadashi Hisatsune), an environment-related plant manufacturer in the Nippon Steel group, has developed a decomposition technology for fixed ammon...
FBIS3-60352_0
Japan Environmental News Update (1-15 September 1993) Japan Iron and Steel Federation To Send Mission to Brazil for Environmental Assistance
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Complete text of article obtained through NIKKEI BIZ DATABASE] [Text] The Japan Iron and Steel Federation (chairman: Hiroshi Saito) will send a mission to Brazil in late September to assist in environmental technology training. This is in response to an invitation from the Steel Ass...
FBIS3-60353_0
Japan Environmental News Update (1-15 September 1993) Ebara Forms Partnership With German Firm
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Complete text of article obtained through NIKKEI BIZ DATABASE] [Text] Ebara has formed a comprehensive partnership in the area of the environment with Lulugi (based in Frankfurt; president: Jan Peter Shaefer), a large engineering company in Germany. First, a subsidiary is expected t...
FBIS3-60376_9
European Environment Agency Launched Participation of Non-Community Countries and International Organisations
into account issues of security, secrecy and legality, in line with common rules developed through the DG III programme, IDA (Interchange of Data between Administrations), whose aim is to encourage and stimulate such data exchange. The approach focusses on the requirements for communication and the exchange and access ...
FBIS3-60378_1
Competitiveness/Environment Balance Plea
of fungi seems promising for the future because these organisms can colonize vast regions while bacteria develop in more limited zones. There is also increasing talk about biomass combustion and the use of biofuels. Although wood combustion is used relatively little in France, other countries have no hesitation about u...
FBIS3-60378_4
Competitiveness/Environment Balance Plea
environment is inevitable. For drinking water, the excess of dissolved biodegradable organic carbon undergoes biological treatment using the properties of bacteria fixed on active carbon and biological nitrification or denitrification is often used. The treatment of waste water frequently requires a biological process ...
FBIS3-60378_9
Competitiveness/Environment Balance Plea
Ecological research must be strengthened to test the evolution that blind development in genetic engineering could bring about, and particularly in the plant world. Nature is being increasingly moulded by man, but biodiversity is certainly an indispensable advantage for its survival, notably if we are entering a period...
FBIS3-60386_0
Studies Show Cancer Dangers From Nuclear Plants
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Polly Ghazi: "New Cancer Fears Raise Ministers' Doubts on Thorp"] [Text] Anxiety among Ministers over the hundreds of cancer deaths that Britain's new nuclear reprocessing plant is expected to produce is jeopardising its future. The Government's radioactive waste advisers ...
FBIS3-60386_1
Studies Show Cancer Dangers From Nuclear Plants
Environment Minister Tim Yeo last week instructed the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee to advise the Government on the validity of calculation methods for radiation doses and subsequent worldwide deaths. The move follows the forwarding to Ministers this month of an alarming new report by the Government's...
FBIS3-60392_0
North Sea Wildlife Endangered by Toxic Waste
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Sean Ryan, environment correspondent: "Toxic Cocktail Killing North Sea Dolphins"] [Text] The wildlife of the North Sea, one of Europe's most diverse habitats, is under increasing threat from a build-up of pollution that is killing dolphins, seals and countless birds. The ...
FBIS3-60392_2
North Sea Wildlife Endangered by Toxic Waste
and common seals. Tens of thousands of sea birds are also dying each year in oil slicks from rigs and ships' tanks. Dr Nancy Harrison, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said: "Accidents make headlines, but chronic oil pollution is the biggest danger to wildlife and the health of the sea." Some of the mo...
FBIS3-60395_0
Ministry: No Care for AIDS Victims
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] The Minister for Health, Mr Joshua Angatia yesterday warned that in future, Aids patients will have to be catered for by their families because the Government could not afford to maintain them in hospitals. He said if all Aids patients were to be admitted to hospitals, then it ...
FBIS3-60396_0
Fourteen Deaths From Meningitis in Mubenda District
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Alibosit Vincent: "Meningitis Hits Buwekula"] [Text] Fourteen people have died in Kibalinga, Buwekula areas in Mubende district recently. According to the medical report issued by the Medical Superintendent, Mubende Hospital Dr Ngobi, the cause of death was meningitis. The...
FBIS3-60397_0
Twenty Sudan Refugees Die of Meningitis, Measles
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Yunusu Abbey: "20 Sudan Refugees Dead in Arua Camp"] [Text] Over 20 Sudanese refugees have so far died after contracting meningitis and measles at two transit camps here. Many more are down from the same causes. The dead comprise mainly old men and women as well as childre...
FBIS3-60400_0
TB Outbreak at Chiredzi Hospital Reported
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] The Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Timothy Stamps, yesterday confirmed recent Press reports that over 20 members of staff had contracted tuberculosis at Chiredzi District Hospital. Dr Stamps told reporters in Chiredzi that 20 nurses and six general hands had contracte...
FBIS3-60407_0
China, U.S. Cooperate in Chronic Disease Research
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hefei, December 9 (XINHUA) -- In the countryside chronic diseases are closely connected with patients' occupations and the their working and living environment, according to a large-scale investigation now being conducted in east China's Anhui Province. The investigation is par...
FBIS3-60408_0
Parasites Said Affection 62 Percent of Population
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Zhu Baoxia: "Parasites Infect Most of Nation's Population"] [Text] Parasitic diseases have infected more than 62% of Chinese residents and have become a major threat to public health, especially in rural and ethnic areas. Some medical specialists suggest that...
FBIS3-60417_0
Court Rules Blood Supplier Responsible for HIV-Linked Death
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] A Seoul court has ruled that the authority which supplies blood with the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is responsible for the infection and not the state or hospital involved. The landmark ruling, made yesterday by the Seoul District Civil Court, is expected to have a crit...
FBIS3-60421_0
Health Committee Reports Infectious Diseases Rising
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] The Republican Committee for Health and Social Safety of the Citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina stated that according to the information it has received from the regions of Olovo, Mostar, Teocak, Zvornik, and Sarajevo, eight people were killed and 12 wounded in the last 24 h...
FBIS3-60423_4
Statistics on Infectious Diseases
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FBIS3-60425_0
Birth Rate Drop, Infant Mortality Reported
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, December 8 (BTA) -- A total of 96,522 Bulgarians were born in 1992 and 138,705 abortions were performed over the same period, statistics of the National Health Prophylaxis Centre show. The results of a related survey were made public yesterday, TRUD writes. There are 2.1...
FBIS3-60430_0
Slovak Soldiers Not Hurt by Gas in Gulf
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prague, Nov 29 (CTK) -- No physical or mental problems have been detected among the Slovak soldiers who had been involved within the Czechoslovak anti-chemical unit in the 1991 Desert Storm operation, Chairman of the Slovak Army health service Stanislav Pirosik said today. He r...
FBIS3-60433_0
Brucellosis Reported in Kicevo Area
Language: Macedonian Article Type:CSO [Article by V.Z.: "Threat of Brucellosis"] [Text] This year, 11 citizens contracted the disease, while veterinarians destroyed 139 head of contaminated cattle. Kicevo, November--Once again, the Kicevo livestock breeders are disturbed by the outbreak of brucellosis, a contagious dis...
FBIS3-60434_0
Contagious Diseases Kill 208 in Kosovo This Year
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "208 Victims of Contagious Diseases in Kosova Within This Year" -- issued by the Democratic League of Kosova] [Text] The Prishtina-based Serbian newspaper JEDINSTVO reports in its today's edition that during this year only, some 18,836 persons in Kosova have suff...
FBIS3-60438_0
Health Authorities Issue Bulletin on Casualties, Diseases
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] How the aggressor is observing the signed agreements in practice is best illustrated by the bullet of the Republican Institute for Health Protection for the past week. The aggressors killed 60 and wounded 167 citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the past week. Despite the f...
FBIS3-60439_0
Health Center Puts Total Death Toll at `Over 141,000'
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] What follows now is this week's black Bosnia-Herzegovina statistics. According to the latest report from the Bosnia-Herzegovina Health Headquarters, during the last week 66 people were killed and 255 were wounded in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Sarajevo, 21 were killed and 118...
FBIS3-60440_1
Serbia: Embargo Impairs Health Care Conditions
about a general deterioration of the immunity of citizens. Some bleak forecasts have already come true: In the last two years in our capital there has been a growing number of mental, contagious, and so called insufficiently defined diseases, that is to say, cases without diagnosis. "In the period prior to the sanction...
FBIS3-60440_2
Serbia: Embargo Impairs Health Care Conditions
3.8 percent. This figure refers only to the cases registered by general practitioners. The analysis of autopsy reports in the period prior to the imposition of the UN sanctions and after it, speaks convincingly for how endangered the health of Yugoslav citizens is. "The cases of infections have considerably increased i...
FBIS3-60440_3
Serbia: Embargo Impairs Health Care Conditions
much as 35 percent have been proven incorrect! There are many reasons for that: The reduced number of regular medical checkups, the lack of diagnostic instruments and medicines, problems in the field of disinfection and disinfestation.... Among the most frequent causes of death, apart from "traditional" diseases, the v...
FBIS3-60440_4
Serbia: Embargo Impairs Health Care Conditions
many reasons for that: The reduced number of regular medical checkups, the lack of diagnostic instruments and medicines, problems in the field of disinfection and disinfestation.... Among the most frequent causes of death, apart from "traditional" diseases, the violent forms of death (suicides, murders, accidents) have...
FBIS3-60441_0
Federal Ministry Report: Sanctions `Highly Damaging' to Health Care
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Belgrade, Nov 25 (AFP) -- Sanctions imposed against the rump Yugoslavia in 1990 have proved highly damaging to health care, according to a Health Ministry statement published in the daily BORBA. The death rate in hospitals has risen by up to 30 percent since the introduction of...
FBIS3-60446_0
Researchers Seek To Decrease Pediatric AIDS
Language: Portuguese Article Type:CSO [Article by Sandra Gomide] [Text] Sao Paulo--Nearly 20 percent of North American children of mothers carrying the AIDS virus are born infected with the disease. In Brazil, this rate is almost 35 percent, resembling that in the African countries. However, it is known that half of al...
FBIS3-60446_1
Researchers Seek To Decrease Pediatric AIDS
all the children infected worldwide contract the virus at the time of delivery. Based on this information, researchers are attempting to reduce the number of pediatric AIDS cases. "If we succeed in obtaining a method to prevent transmission of the virus, the result will be good, because these children are still develop...
FBIS3-60448_0
AIDS Coordinator Projects Future AIDS Figures
Language: Portuguese Article Type:CSO [Text] The AIDS virus has now stricken 13 million adults and a million children worldwide: 2.5 million people have AIDS. World Health Organization (WHO) projections indicate that, by the end of the 1990's, there will be 43 million infected people in the world. Moreover, 10 million ...
FBIS3-60449_0
Rio Meningitis Cases Exceed Forecasts
Language: Portuguese Article Type:CSO [Text] During November, the cases of meningococcal meningitis in Rio exceeded the maximum limit anticipated. According to the Municipal Health Secretariat, 48 cases were reported, representing 37 percent more than the 35 cases of the disease expected for the month. The number of fa...
FBIS3-60450_0
Salinas Cites Progress in Health Care in State of the Nation Address
Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] In the past year, we opened 12 general hospitals and 215 first aid clinics. This means that during my administration we inaugurated a new hospital every three weeks and a first aid clinic every day during my five years in government. Following the expansion and refurbishment of the 20 de Novi...
FBIS3-60450_1
Salinas Cites Progress in Health Care in State of the Nation Address
under the age of five with all vaccinations. To maintain the high coverage levels attained, we applied more than 88 million doses in 1993. During National Health Week, last October, a total of 22 million children received the measles vaccine. Some 8 million children received treatment against parasites, and vitamins we...
FBIS3-60461_2
Editorial Warns Against Advance of AIDS
to the infected people. Much of the world is observing AIDS week currently, to focus attention on the issue and spread awareness of the danger. In most of Asia the awareness effort has been limited almost exclusively to the more affluent and more liberal segments of society, with walks and high level seminars putting i...
FBIS3-60469_3
Health Official Discusses Concerns, Plan of Action
Additionally, we should build a facility for utilizing toxic industrial waste currently dumped in forests, open fields, and water intakes. The Yantar factory was requested to conduct construction of such a facility. The program also provides for similar projects in various cities and rayons. Azarova: Recently, the issu...
FBIS3-60470_0
Surge in Rodent-Borne Diseases
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Ye. Vladykin; "Alarm! There's the Smell of Plague in the Air"; first paragraph is URALSKIY RABOCHIY introduction] [Text] A dramatic rise in the number of rodent-borne diseases has been noted in the oblast. According to data of the Oblast Sanitary and Epidemiological Oversi...
FBIS3-60476_0
`Dramatic Increase' of Thyroid Cancer in Children Since Chernobyl Lamented
Language: Belarusian Article Type:BFN [Report by Ivan Hladkiy] [Excerpts] The dire socioeconomic situation in which Belarus has fallen of late -- constant price hikes, falling production, the specter of mass unemployment -- are threatening our very well-being. I am convinced that we will overcome the economic carnage, ...
FBIS3-60485_1
Europe Lags Behind U.S. in Biotechnology
CEC's [Commission of the European Community] Biotechnology Unit in Brussels, was Acting Director of SERC's [Science and Engineering Research Council] Biotechnology Directorate. He went on to list what the Commission sees as Europe's chief weaknesses in the area. These are: -- Lack of consensus on the scientific objecti...
FBIS3-60487_0
BMFT Funds R&D Program on Infectious Diseases
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] BMFT [Federal Ministry of Research and Technology] funding of research on infectious diseases to date has shown that basic research has attained world level, whereas there is still ground to be made up in, primarily, applied, patient-oriented research. The new "Infection Researc...
FBIS3-60488_0
Increased Tourism Raises Incidence of Malaria
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Geraldine Collins: "Tourists Warned of Big Rise in Malaria Cases"] [Excerpt] Increased Irish tourism traffic to the tropics for exotic and adventure holidays has dramatically raised the number of malaria cases detected here in recent years, some of them fatal. Three Irish ...
FBIS3-60489_0
Incidence of Pneumonia in Young Cattle High
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article: "Vets Warning on Pneumonia"] [Text] The highest episode of pneumonia in young cattle ever is being reported by veterinary surgeons in practice, according to a statement yesterday from the Irish Veterinary Union. Vets are recommending that susceptible animals be vaccinated pr...
FBIS3-60490_2
Testing of New Anticancer Drug Described
patient's own immune defenses and, therefore, it is important that the immune defenses are functioning well. Patients whose immune systems have been suppressed after cell poisoning or radiation therapy will probably react poorly to the vaccine and are not appropriate for treatment. "Therefore, we want to introduce the ...
FBIS3-60491_0
Less Serious, HIV-Related Virus Found Among Drug Addicts
Language: Swedish Article Type:CSO [Article by Kerstin Hellbom: "New Virus Among Drug Addicts"--introductory paragraph in boldface as published] [Text] Another virus infection affecting mostly intravenous drug users has now been discovered in Sweden. It is the HTLV virus, closely related to HIV, and it has been found i...
FBIS3-60491_1
Less Serious, HIV-Related Virus Found Among Drug Addicts
She found HTLV in 10 out of 134 blood samples. All 10 subjects had had hepatitis A, B, and C and jaundice, and seven of the 10 were also HIV- positive. "The incidence of HTLV was surprisingly high. In every case, the virus was present in addicts who had been exposed to a great deal of infection." In another study, this...
FBIS3-60493_0
Minister Reports Problems of National Health Service
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent: "Health Targets Have Failed Says Bottomley"] [Text] Virginia Bottomley, the Health Secretary, will admit tomorrow that the Government's Health of the Nation strategy is failing to have any effect on three of its key targets. Releas...
FBIS3-60500_0
Incidence of Hepatitis Increases in Schools
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [A. Brkic report: ``Increased Number of Jaundice Sufferers''] [Text] We have learned from the appropriate epidemiological services that the number of jaundice sufferers in Serbia has increased in comparison to the number in previous years. The situation is not alarming because ...
FBIS3-60501_1
Conditions at Macedonian Hematology Clinic
They are perennially humid and quite frequently the sewage pipes leak. The Hematology Clinic of former Yugoslavia was one of the top clinics in terms of technology and personnel, says Docent Doctor Nikola Siljanovski, its director. Currently, it can boast only of its personnel who, he claims, meet all requirements of c...
FBIS3-60503_0
Regional Health Report 26 Nov
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on regional health and epidemiology developments monitored through 26 November. Source is cited in parentheses following each item. Colombia Luis Alfonso Ante Benitez, sectional chief of health of Risaralda Department, has reported that one o...
FBIS3-60504_0
Regional Health Report 3 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on regional health and epidemiology developments monitored through 3 December. Source is cited in parentheses following each item. Colombia Although Health Ministry figures indicate the are no more than 60,000 AIDS cases in the country, Socia...
FBIS3-60504_3
Regional Health Report 3 Dec
100 Central American AIDS cases recorded, 57 are Hondurans. Although Honduran health authorities attribute the spread of AIDS to poor information with respect to risks involved in contracting the disease, some sectors link the epidemic's rapid growth to the presence of U.S. troops in the country. (Paris AFP in Spanish ...
FBIS3-60505_0
Regional Health Report 10 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on regional health and epidemiology developments monitored through 10 December. Source is cited in parentheses following each item. Colombia In the 10 years that AIDS has been reported in Colombia, it has officially caused 1,800 deaths. Never...
FBIS3-60506_0
Regional Health Report 17 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on regional health and epidemiology developments monitored through 17 December. Source is cited in parentheses after each item. Costa Rica On 15 December, local health authorities confirmed that 4,376 cases of dengue have been recorded so far...
FBIS3-60509_0
Southern Cone Health Report 10-16 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on epidemics and diseases monitored by Paraguay Bureau from 10 to 16 December. Argentina The Health and Social Action Ministry on 14 December reported that five new cholera cases have been registered in Salta Province in the past few hours. T...
FBIS3-60519_0
AIDS Deaths Reach 750
Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] Tegucigalpa--Spokesmen for the Ministry of Public Health have reported that 16 of the 179 patients suffering from the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) reported last month have died. Between 1985 and the present, 3,182 cases of the ``20th century plague'' have been rep...
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Government Launches Cholera Prevention Program
this purpose, the status of sanitation is being improved with the installation of water and sewerage services, in some instances financed with Fonavi [National Housing Fund] resources. He added that the incidence of cholera cases on the national level has been reduced through the sanitation measures being implemented. ...
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Mystery Disease Affects Six Hundred in Bihar
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] PATNA, October 5: More than 600 people in the villages of Khairi Ajgarwa, Sisbania and Tikulia in the Motihari block of East Champaran district have been taken ill during the past six days, with seven of them succumbing to the illness, which is yet to be identified. While early...
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Former BW Plant Developing 'Hyperthermia' Treatment
Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the ``Vesti'' newscast: Video report by A. Samoletov and A. Lomakin, identified by caption; figures in brackets denote broadcast time in GMT in hours, minutes, and seconds] [Text] [201529] [video opens with correspondent against backdrop of building] [Samoletov] A few years ago ...
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Physician Warns of Measles Epidemic
Language: Danish Article Type:CSO [Article by Annette Hagerup: ``Doctor Predicts Danish Measles Epidemic''--first paragraph is BERLINGSKE TIDENDE introduction] [Text] Parents' fear of having their children vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella could result in a measles epidemic with the risk of serious complic...
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Roundup of Disease Reports for 18-27 Nov
Corporation Radio Network in English 0600 GMT 25 Nov 93) Nigeria The UNICEF representative in Nigeria, Mr. (Kulio Waki), declared that Nigerian salt is sufficiently iodized. He made this remark in Abuja at the opening session of a two-day workshop on the eradication of iodine deficiency disorder. However, Mr. (Waki) sa...
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Roundup of Disease Reports for 18-27 Nov
as disabilities that affect human beings due to a lack of iodine in their bodies. (Lagos Radio Nigeria Network in English 1500 GMT 18 Nov 93) Rwanda Jean-Baptiste Nubahumpatse reports that Burundian refugees in southern Rwanda and Bugesera still face untold suffering. Dysentery rages, while food and the infrastructures...
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Roundup of Disease Reports for 30 Nov-3 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of disease reports monitored from FBIS Abidjan Bureau and EAU coverage areas. Source information is given in parentheses after each item. Benin Our country joined the international community on 1 December to observe World AIDS Day. According to the Nati...
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Epidemiological Reports for 15-21 Nov
number does not reflect the exact figure of people with AIDS infection because many victims have not been medically examined.'' (Maseru Radio Lesotho in Eng 1130 GMT 17 Nov 93) Mozambique HIV -- ``Sofala Province reported 80 HIV cases between 1986 and March 1993. Dr. Inacio Barreto, provincial supervisor for AIDS, says...
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Epidemiological Reports Monitored 22-28 Nov
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Following is a compilation of reports monitored by FBIS Mbabane Bureau from 22 to 28 November concerning outbreaks of and reports on various diseases. Items are listed by country and disease. Source follows each item. Angola AIDS -- More than 600 AIDS cases have been reported in Ango...
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Epidemiological Reports Monitored 6-12 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Following is a compilation of reports monitored by FBIS Mbabane Bureau from 6 to 12 December concerning outbreaks of and reports on various diseases. Items are listed by country and disease. Source follows each item. Angola Diarrhea -- ``Diarrhea is killing people in Cubal, Benguela ...
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Epidemiological Reports Monitored 13-19 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Following is a compilation of reports monitored by FBIS Mbabane Bureau from 13 to 19 December concerning outbreaks of and reports on various diseases. Items are listed by country and disease. Source follows each item. Mozambique Cholera, Diarrhea -- Cholera and diarrhea have killed 1...
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Doctor Attacks UN Operation in Somalia
Language: Swedish Article Type:CSO [Article by Carina Beckerman] [Text] ``What amazed me in Somalia was the UN tactics. It was so hopeless, it didn't lead anywhere. At an earlier stage, even before the summer, the UN should have learned from what had happened and tried to change the course of events, either by reaching...
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Southern Cone Health Report 26 Nov-2 Dec
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on epidemics and diseases monitored by Paraguay Bureau from 26 November to 2 December. Argentina The Health and Social Action Ministry on 1 December reported six new cholera cases were registered in the previous 24 hours in Salta Province. Th...
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Official Urges Development of Nuclear Power
stations are worn out and dilapidated. They should be either radically overhauled or replaced with entirely new ones. Our problem is a lack of large deposits. We think that it can be resolved in three ways. First, we should continue to import energy. You understand that one can transmit electrical energy -- heat cannot...
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South, North Korea Reportedly Having Secret Contacts
Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [By Washington-based correspondent Chong Hae-yong] [Text] A rumor from the Washington political circle strongly suggests that South and North Korea are seeking the resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue through secret, behind-the-scene contacts, in addition to the on-going workin...
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Commentary Views Use of Chemical Weapons in Balkans
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Slavoljub Susic] [Excerpts] There are at least two reasons to link the discovery of lethal waste delivered from Germany to neighboring Albania with the war and other events in the Balkans. First, involved are materials whose degree of poisonousness--that is, toxi...
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Editorial Views Changing U.S. Diplomacy on South Asia
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Pressler And All That"] [Text] The reported U.S. move to repeal the Pressler amendment is the latest indication of changing American diplomacy towards South Asia. Ms. Robin Raphel's absurd remarks on Kashmir, questioning the Instrument of Accession; Mr. Warren Christopher...