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Anchorage Health Officials Warn of Unhealthy Air
Anchorage health officials are warning residents that airborne particulate concentrations are approaching unhealthy levels. The Anchorage Department of Health and Human Services says the recent spell of warmth and rain exposed ground and put thawed...
Tags: Weather, Asthma, Weather Reports
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Fire Evacuation Lifted in Palmer Subdivision Thursday Night
Channel 2 NewsUpdate: Update from City of Palmer: At 10 pm, residents may return to the Cedar Hills Subdivision without the need to show id. Please use care when driving as the firefighters will have their equipment in the area and will monitor the area throughout...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Lazy Lake, Injuries and Wounds, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Fairbanks Inversion Again Makes for Unhealthy Air
Fairbanks area residents are again being warned about breathing the air. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says wintertime air pollution has returned to the Fairbanks area because of lower temperatures and a strong inversion. Temperatures on Thursday...
Tags: Air Pollution, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Mat-Su Borough Issues Halloween Air Quality Advisory
Channel 2 NewsThe Mat-Su Borough has issued a Halloween night air quality advisory for Palmer, Wasilla and Butte, with high winds making air quality in the region “unhealthy to hazardous.” Borough grants and planning coordinator Pamela Graham says the...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Air Pollution, Environmental Pollution, Halloween, Environmental Issues
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Spring Snow Melts Leave Dust Across Anchorage
Channel 2 NewsAs spring snow melts continue, the dirt that is left behind can make spring a challenging season for some Alaskans. Air quality in Anchorage has been "moderate" for the past few days, posing a moderate health concern for people who may be unusually...Tags: Symptoms, Lungs and Airways, Allergies, Asthma, Air Pollution
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Alaska Joins Several States In Cigarette Label Lawsuit
Channel 2 NewsSeveral states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Laws, Lungs and Airways, Companies and Corporations, Human Body
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School bus drivers protest working, safety conditions
Bus drivers and aides employed by a Baltimore schools contractor say that unsafe conditions such as fires and mold spores are endangering lives and unfair wages are threatening their livelihoods. The grievances were aired Thursday at a rally of...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, Learning Disability, Laws, Unions
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2008 - Study: Higher Rate Of Brian Cancer Not Statistically Significant
Hartford CourantA long-awaited study of almost 225,000 Pratt & Whitney workers from the 1950s to the early 2000s found a slightly higher rate of brain cancer among workers at a former North Haven plant than for the Connecticut population as a whole. But the study,...Tags: Southington, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Middletown, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Measuring methane: Can it evaluate cattle feed efficiency and overall health?
PIEDMONT, S.D. - Will cattlemen someday measure their animals' breaths and belches to determine feed efficiency, or whether they're getting sick? Pat and Scott Zimmerman think so. They are principals of C-Lock Inc. in Piedmont, S.D., which has...Tags: Symptoms, Michigan State University, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Technology
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Equine herpes virus
Equine herpesvirus (EHV-1, EHV-4) is also known as rhinopneumonitis and has received a lot of media attention in the last two years due to the rare neurologic form it has exhibited at some major equestrian events. Clinical Signs Equine herpesvirus has...Tags: Symptoms, Abortion, Disease Prevention, Physiology, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Tunisia: Man back from Saudi Arabia dies from coronavirus, 2 children treated and recovered
Associated PressRABAT, Morocco (AP) — A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia and two of his adult children were infected with it, the Tunisian Health Ministry reported. His sons were treated and have since...Tags: Steroids, Tunisia, Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, International Organizations
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Hildreth Marie Venegas
Funeral service for Hildreth Marie Venegas, 93, of Sisseton was held on Friday, April 19, 2013, at 10 a.m. at the Tribal Community Center, Agency Village with the Rev. Charles Chan, the Rev. Vern Donnell, Deacon Vernon Cloud, and Senior Catechist John...
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