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A Via Rail train, carrying more than 260 passengers to Toronto, has been quarantined in Foleyet, Ont. after one person died and several people fell ill. "Currently there are a few people who are seriously ill on the train and one person is being airlifted right now," OPP Sgt. Laura Nichols told CTV.ca from the North Bay Communications Centre. The train was quarantined at the train depot in Foleyet, a community near Sudbury, Ont., after officials notified police that someone was feeling ill. More than 260 people were aboard the train when it stopped in Foleyet. Police believe there are...

It's now leaking out that there was more going on than met the eye at the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit in Montebello, Canada, in August. The three amigos - President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon - finalized and released the "North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza." The "Plan" - that's what they call it, with a capital P - is to use the excuse of a major flu epidemic to shift powers from U.S. legislatures to unelected, unaccountable "North American" bureaucrats. This idea was launched on Sept. 14, 2005,...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A man placed in isolation after he was diagnosed with contagious tuberculosis broke a hospital window and fled, health officials said. Unlike the Georgia lawyer who was under a federal quarantine after flying to Europe with what was then believed to be extensively drug-resistant TB, Arkansas health officials said the man who fled has a form of tuberculosis that would respond to treatment. Franklin Greenwood, 50, is still contagious, though, health officials said. Greenwood was placed in isolation at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital on June 29 after he was seen coughing up...

This crap head continues to dig himself deeper every time he opens his big dumb mouth. The TB infected lawyer who ignored medical advice, and refused to go into isolation when ordered to do so, is now saying that he was tricked into going into quarantine.

Over 100 Poultry Workers in South Carolina Test Positive for TB Acting on reported TB case of one of the workers at the Columbia Farms factory, Health Officials in conjunction with other authorities decided to formally evaluate the entire processing plant and conduct a close-contact investigation. There were 900 workers at this site, but in accordance to a CDC algorithm that assesses risk contacts, officials only tested 286 of the factories employees. Out of this group, 131 exhibited a positive skin test for tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB, Tuberculum Bacillum) is chiefly caused by a species of bacteria called mycobacterium tuberculosis. This...

MIAMI -- Authorities at Miami International Airport detained a sick passenger Monday who had been on a British Airways flight from London, but health experts determined that she was not contagious and did not have an infectious disease. The 45-year-old woman was believed to have a gastrointestinal illness and was being taken to a hospital, said Von Roebuck, a spokesman the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The woman had diarrhea and was vomiting, he said. "They ruled out infectious disease," Roebuck said, but he did not elaborate. Miami International Airport spokesman Marc Henderson said the other passengers...

They broke into CNN Pipeline stating CDC has quarantied a British Airways flight arriving a Miami Airport....female passneger became sick over Atlantic, then started coughing up blood. No one allowed out of plane. No link yet

The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional. Or Speaker could be sued by fellow airline passengers, especially if any caught the disease from him — which some legal scholars say is much more likely. "He may be personally liable if someone contracts TB" from being near him on his recent flights to and from Europe, said Peter Jacobson, a University of...

PHOENIX (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit claiming Maricopa County officials violated the rights of a quarantined tuberculosis patient for months by treating him like a criminal. The US District Court complaint seeks what it calls appropriate accommodations for Daniels, rather than severe and "inhumane" jail conditions. Robert England, the county's tuberculosis control officer, declined comment on the suit. The 27-year-old Daniels has been isolated in a jail ward at Maricopa Medical Center for 10 months -- even though he was not convicted or charged with any crime. His attorney says Daniels has been victimized...

An Atlanta-area man — infected with a rare, potentially deadly type of tuberculosis — is under federal quarantine with an armed sheriff's deputy outside his door following his odyssey on international flights, including some to smuggle himself back into the country.... "I didn't want to put anybody at risk," the Fulton County man, who declined to be identified, said in a telephone interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "We just wanted to come home and get treatment."... "I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he said. "This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when...

PHOENIX — Behind the county hospital's tall cinderblock walls, a 27-year-old tuberculosis patient sits in a jail cell equipped with a ventilation system that keeps germs from escaping. Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable. County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others. Specifically, he...

Two hospitals are asking visitors, especially children, to stay away until they control an outbreak of a highly contagious stomach virus.

When federal and state agriculture regulators learn of a potential farm disease outbreak, they quickly move in to isolate it by slaughtering not only diseased animals, but other animals that may have been exposed to the diseased animals, and quarantining the affected farms. Just such a containment process is currently under way in Britain to contain Avian flu in turkeys. And recently gaining attention is a two-year-old USDA program called the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), under which approximately 500 million-plus farm animals are to be identified via special digital tags, with the goal of speeding up the disease-identification/containment process....

People infected with a deadly, virtually untreatable new form of tuberculosis should be isolated and confined -- against their will, if necessary -- to prevent a "potentially explosive international health crisis," according to a group of Canadian and African scientists. These harsh measures are justified given the "extreme risk" posed by an ongoing outbreak of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) in South Africa, they argue in today's edition of the medical journal Public Library of Science Medicine. "We're not saying put people in leper colonies," Ross Upshur, director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and co-author of the...

ANAHEIM, Calif., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told California evangelicals Friday he strongly disagrees with anyone who opposes the use of condoms to fight AIDS. But he also told the 2,000 evangelicals gathered in Orange County that the solution to the AIDS epidemic must come in part from churches guiding people to make moral decisions, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was less sanguine about absolute chastity. "We can't ignore the fact that abstinence and fidelity, although the ideal, may not always be the reality," he said, "that we're dealing with flesh and blood men and...

SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Yonhap) -- Scarlet fever has been spreading fast in North Korea for nearly a month and is showing signs of becoming a full-blown pandemic despite efforts by North Korean authorities to contain the disease, a source close to the North said Wednesday. The disease first broke out in the communist state's northern Yanggang Province last month, but is quickly spreading to other parts of the country, the source told Yonhap News Agency on condition of anonymity.

ETAJIMA ? The only special squad of the Maritime Self-Defense Force has engaged in secret drills to prepare for Japan's possible inspections of North Korea-related ships under a U.N. Security Council resolution following Pyongyang's nuclear test last month, Kyodo News learned Thursday. The MSDF is carrying out the drills every day at its base in Etajima, a Seto Inland Sea island in Hiroshima Prefecture even though the Japanese government has yet to decide its position on the issue due to legal sensitivities. The government has left various questions unanswered, such as whether it can apply the law on Japan's...

All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health officials recommended Thursday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Americans should have an AIDS test during their annual doctor's visit, along with other procedures they might normally have, reported CBS News' Cami McCormick. "We know that many HIV infected people seek health care and they don't get tested. And many people are not diagnosed until late in the course of their illness, when they're already sick with...

1,000s quarantined in Bucharest 22/05/2006 22:54 - (SA) Bucharest - About 13,000 people were quarantined in the Romanian capital on Monday as troops and police sealed off streets in response to the city's second bird-flu outbreak, said officials. The mayor of the southern fourth district, Adrian Inimaroiu, said residents would be cut off and all businesses in the area would be closed during the quarantine period of up to three weeks. The move came after the agriculture ministry earlier on Monday confirmed the presence of the H5 bird-flu virus in dead chickens found in the neighbourhood, the latest of dozens...

Tuesday, May 9 at 8/7c To date, there have been no cases of the H5N1 virus in the United States nor has there been a human transmission of the disease in a form that could fuel a pandemic. However, experts around the world are monitoring the Avian Flu situation closely and are preparing for the possibility that the virus could begin to spread from person to person. For information on the virus log onto pandemicflu.gov. There are times that test humanity and challenge the soul of a community or a nation. News images and headlines tell stories of rising waters,...

US updates quarantine procedures ahead of possible bird flu pandemic 47 minutes ago US health authorities have called for updating quarantine procedures, including better access to passenger lists for incoming ships and planes, to improve preparedness for a possible bird flu pandemic. The proposed changes, which include more authority to administer medical treatments and vaccines to people under quarantine, are part of a review started two years ago following the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. "Existing communicable disease regulations are outdated, have not kept up with advances in disease control measures and have not been substantially updated for over...

OMSK, October 29 (Itar-Tass) - A quarantine was imposed in the village of Rozovka in the Omsk Region on Saturday in connection with the bird flu. The Novosibirsk inter-regional veterinary laboratory confirmed the diagnosis, a source at the regional veterinary and farm produce control department told Itar-Tass. More than 100 poultry birds died in Rozovka located not far from the Russian-Kazakh border. Deaths of wild and domestic birds from infection were reported in six districts of the Omsk Region last August and September. The tough preventive measures taken by local authorities at that time stopped the bird flu from...

BUCHAREST, Romania (CNN) -- Romanian officials quarantined a Danube delta village of about 30 people Friday after three dead ducks there tested positive for bird flu -- the first such cases reported in the region. Agriculture Minister Gheorghe Flutur said the virus found in the farm-raised ducks came from migrating birds from Russia. And while it is difficult for the virus to spread from birds to humans, authorities were taking no chances. They sealed off the village of Ciamurlia and banned hunting and fishing in eight counties in the region. Romania also suspended imports of chickens and other poultry from...

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic. He said the military, and perhaps the National Guard, might be needed to take such a role if the feared H5N1 bird flu virus changes enough to cause widespread human infection. "If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country? And how do you, then, enforce a quarantine?" Bush asked at a news conference. "It's one thing...

WASHINGTON - President Bush, increasingly concerned about a possible avian flu pandemic, revealed Tuesday that any part of the country where the virus breaks out could likely be quarantined and that he is considering using the military to enforce it. "The best way to deal with a pandemic is to isolate it and keep it isolated in the region in which it begins," he said during a wide-ranging Rose Garden news conference. The president was asked if his recent talk of giving the military the lead in responding to large natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and other catastrophes was...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian woman was found to be carrying 51 live tropical fish after custom officials were alerted by "flipping" noises coming from beneath her skirt as she arrived at Melbourne airport. On closer inspection, officers discovered the woman had strapped on an apron of plastic water-filled bags containing the fish, the Australian Customs Service said in a statement on Tuesday. "During the search, customs officers became suspicious after hearing 'flipping' noises coming from the vicinity of her waist," said the statement. The 43-year-old woman arrived in Melbourne on a flight from Singapore last Friday. Customs are still...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials played down a report on Monday that the administration might seek a United Nations resolution empowering nations to intercept shipments in and out of North Korea that may contain nuclear-related materials. While acknowledging there may be some discussion of such a move, they said no proposal has been presented to senior policymakers, nor was there a decision to formally bring the issue of North Korea's nuclear programs to the U.N. Security Council. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters traveling with her to Latin America that the United States' main way of dealing with...

The Bush administration, facing a series of recent provocations from North Korea, is debating a plan to seek a United Nations resolution empowering all nations to intercept shipments in or out of the country that may contain nuclear materials or components, say senior administration officials and diplomats who have been briefed on the proposal. The resolution envisioned by a growing number of senior administration officials would amount to a quarantine of North Korea, though, so far at least, President Bush's aides are not using that word. It would enable the United States and other nations to intercept shipments in international...

Editor's note: Parents are advised this commentary deal with subject matter that may not be suitable for children. © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com When Page 1 of the New York Times headlined: "A DRUG RESISTANT HIV STRAIN IS REPORTED IN NEW YORK CITY, on Feb. 12, it was reported: A rare strain of HIV that is highly resistant to virtually all anti-retroviral drugs and appears to lead to the rapid onset of AIDS was detected in a New York City man last week, city health officials announced on Friday. It was the first time a strain of HIV had been found that showed resistance...

WASHINGTON - President Bush signed an executive order Friday authorizing the government to impose a quarantine to deal with any outbreak of a particularly lethal variation of influenza now found in Southeast Asia. The order is intended to deal with a type of influenza commonly referred to as bird flu. Since January 2004, an estimated 69 people, primarily in Vietnam, have contracted the disease. But Dr. Keiji Fukuda, a flu expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said he suspects there are more cases. The fatality rate among those reported to have the disease is about 70...

<p>Flight Quarantined After Mysterious Illness February 09, 2005 DENVER — Eighty passengers on a Frontier Airlines (search) plane coming from were quarantined Tuesday for more than 90 minutes at Denver International Airport (search) after a woman became ill on the flight. An in-flight medical consulting firm used by the airline was unable to determine the woman's ailment and a medical team that met the plane on the tarmac kept passengers on Flight 449 as a precaution, airline spokesman Joe Hodas said. Passengers were allowed off the Airbus A319 at 9:55 p.m. after it was determined the woman was not contagious. Hodas said passengers told him the woman had developed an unknown rash. The woman, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital. Her condition was not immediately known.</p>

A cargo ship remains under quarantine about 10 miles off the Galveston shore after a crew member died Aug. 31 from an as-yet unidentified illness authorities said could be Lassa Fever or malaria. The ship, which had returned from a voyage to West Africa, was headed to Pasadena but voluntarily anchored offshore Sunday, Galveston County Health District spokesman Kurt Koopmann said. The county, along with the federal Centers for Disease Control and the Texas Department of Health Services, is investigating the unidentified man's death. The Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office will conduct an autopsy today, and samples will be sent...

China Reports Two Confirmed SARS Cases 7 minutes ago By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer BEIJING - China reported two confirmed SARS (news - web sites) cases on Friday and said one of two other people suspected of having the disease has died, apparently the first SARS fatality in the country since July. Hundreds of people have been quarantined. The confirmed cases both had worked in laboratories in Beijing for China's Centers for Disease Control and were probably infected there, Xinhua said. They were identified as a 31-year-old man from Beijing and a 26-year-old woman in central Anhui province, the...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's multi-billion-dollar adult porn industry ground to a virtual halt on Thursday after a popular actor tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites). Industry advocates immediately called for a 60-day moratorium on filming so that others could be tested. Actor Darren James tested positive for HIV (news - web sites) on Wednesday in screening conducted routinely on the industry's 1,200 regular actors by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare (AIM) Foundation, the foundation's Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell (news) said. They must show negative tests to keep working in the industry, Mitchell said, adding...

The U.S. and other world governments already have detailed secret plans for first contact.When UFOs land, a series of plans created to deal with nuclear emergencies and biological attacks will be activated. Within the scientific community, the question is no longer whether extraterrestrial life exists, but if ET is smart enough to do long division. Scientists are of two minds regarding the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Skeptics acknowledge simple life-forms might be found on other planets, but insist that intelligent life is unique to Earth. Their belief is based on the assumption that Earth possesses unique physical attributes, including a...

Singapore lifts SARS quarantine orders December 20 2003 at 11:00AM By Jonathan Landreth Singapore - Singapore sounded the all-clear after its latest Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) scare on Saturday, lifting mandatory home quarantine orders on 75 people who came into contact with a visitor from Taiwan with the deadly flu-like virus. The health ministry in the Southeast Asian city-state, the only other country to report a case since an outbreak that killed hundreds of people worldwide was pronounced over in July, said six people who fell ill did not have SARS. In Taiwan, initial findings showed that the military...

Taiwan's new SARS case raise questions about procedures at labs Two colleagues of infected scientist now in U.S. Song Yeon-Jae / AP A thermal camera checks the temperature of passengers from China arriving Wednesday at Inchon International Airport in South Korea. Taiwan has reported a new SARS case. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's first SARS case in five months raised serious questions Wednesday about how carefully laboratories are handling the virus. The infected scientist ignored safety guidelines and waited six days before going to a hospital -- even though he had a fever. Fears about the virus increased Thursday as Taiwanese...

TAIPEI – Health authorities in Taiwan were yesterday scrambling to track down five foreign passengers on a flight taken by a man later diagnosed with the deadly SARS virus. Centre for Disease Control deputy director Shih Wen-yi said 13 Taiwanese who had sat near the 44-year-old researcher on a flight from Singapore had been told to monitor themselves closely for signs of fever. But five foreigners also occupying seats near the SARS-positive patient – three US nationals, one Japanese and one Singaporean – had so far not been contacted, Mr Shih said. "The whereabouts of the five foreigners is difficult...

World wide alert in new Sars scare A new Sars threat has been revealed after an infected Taiwanese military scientist did not go into strict home quarantine after becoming sick and two of his colleagues travelled to the United States. A search has also started for for five foreigners who travelled on the same plane as the infected man - a medical researcher - more than a week ago. So far, at least 90 people in Taiwan and Singapore have been quarantined, though none have developed Sars symptoms. The developments raise disturbing questions about decisions made by the 44-year-old patient...

Singapore's health ministry today issued quarantine orders to 70 people who may have come into contact with a Taiwanese SARS patient. However, a Geneva-based spokesperson for the World Health Organization, Maria Cheng, said it was unlikely that the severe acute respiratory syndrome case could spark an epidemic. "It looks very much like an isolated event," Cheng said. "He was travelling to Singapore but he was asymptomatic while there and, according to data we have, patients are not contagious while asymptomatic." The Ministry of Health said in a statement that those 70 people may have been exposed to severe acute respiratory...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 — As the health officer of Alameda County, Dr. Anthony Iton is prepared to make tough choices if SARS re-emerges this winter or spring, as many infectious disease experts fear. The county, just across the bay from here, has identified two large buildings where, if voluntary steps to quell an epidemic were to fail, the authorities could sequester not just people who were sick but also people who might have been exposed to the SARS virus, Dr. Iton said. The buildings, he said, could house up to 100 people and could be guarded to keep anyone...

A JAPANESE man who flew to Hong Kong from mainland China has been hospitalised with fever and is being tested for SARS, officials said today. The 29-year-old man, who had been in the mainland city of Dalian, was being treated in isolation a spokeswoman for Hong Kong's Queen Elizabeth Hospital said. The man was in stable condition and authorities were conducting various tests, including one for the SARS virus, she said. A report on Hong Kong's Commercial Radio said the man's chest x-ray showed patches – which can appear in SARS patients.

POSTED: 7:38 a.m. EDT September 14, 2003 UPDATED: 7:43 a.m. EDT September 14, 2003 U.S. lab tests are confirming a medical researcher in Singapore has contracted SARS. The 27-year-old is the first victim of the potentially deadly disease since the World Health Organization declared SARS under control in July. The infected man is hospitalized in isolation and is said to be recovering well. Dozens of his friends, colleagues and relatives are under home quarantine as a precaution. Meanwhile, the Australian government is warning its already battered tourism industry to be prepared for a new outbreak of SARS in Asia in...

<p>The WHO says the Singapore case poses a 'low risk' to general public health.</p> <p>SINGAPORE -- Singapore authorities say a 27-year-old man has SARS, the world's first case since a global outbreak was declared over in July.</p> <p>Singaporean officials confirmed the laboratory technician had SARS after results from a second test were released Tuesday, and have ordered 25 people who have been in contact with the man to stay at home.</p>

VANCOUVER -- A mutant SARS virus has forced into quarantine 19 workers at Surrey Memorial Hospital. They had all come into contact with an elderly female patient at the hospital who recently tested positive for a SARS-like infection. The woman is still in isolation at the hospital with respiratory problems. Hospital spokesperson Helen Carkner said none of the staff are ill, but are staying at home as a precaution. "For a period of a few hours, before we got the conclusive lab results," Carkner said Saturday, "there were some staff that were in contact with that patient." Public health officials...

ABILENE, Texas— Nine people in the Abilene area are quarantined at home as a precaution for the SARS virus, officials said Thursday. A group of military personnel passed through the Toronto Airport recently, and some reported mild to moderate respiratory problems earlier this week after returning to Texas, said Capt. David May of Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene. None have been hospitalized, he said. Only one person fits the definition of being a suspect case of SARS, but the entire group and some people they've come in contact with are now under quarantine, nine people in all, May said....

<p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- One of two patients being monitored in the Triangle for possible exposure to SARS died Friday. Preliminary tests from the Centers for Disease Control were negative. Meanwhile, dozens of people in the Triangle are under quarantine for possible exposure to SARS.</p>

Toronto's most notorious export, may have spread in this tightly knit university town. With one confirmed case of SARS in its midst, employees at a University of North Carolina support building learned yesterday two more of their colleagues are in isolation and suffering from respiratory illness. The news heightened anxiety among the town's residents. "We are very highly concerned," North Carolina state epidemiologist Dr. Jeffrey Engel said in an interview. "That concern will last until we can determine whether there have been secondary infections in this case." Pete Reinhardt, director of health and safety at UNC, said the two show...

PRINT THIS STORY | E-MAIL THIS STORY U.S. bans prairie dog sale, trade Smallpox vaccine recommended to control spread of exotic disease By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press June 12, 2003 ATLANTA - The U.S. government banned the sale of prairie dogs, prohibited the importation of African rodents and recommended smallpox shots Wednesday for people exposed to monkeypox, the exotic African disease that has spread from pet prairie dogs to humans. The government's aggressive response to the disease came the same day that the federal investigation of the monkeypox outbreak was expanded to eight more states, including Tennessee, bringing the total...

Tue Jun 10,10:46 AM ET Schyan Kautzer, 3, of Dorchester, Wis. shows her right index finger Monday June 9, 2003, where she was bitten by a pet prairie dog infected with monkeypox. Schyan Kautzer was the first case of the virus identified. The quarantine of the Kautzer home and five-acre hobby farm was ordered last Friday. (AP Photo/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mary Jo Walicki)