Reuters: "Superbug" spreading 18 October

The trainee ranger team help to track, dart and administer antibiotics to an adult Zebra on foot.

Fire swept through the Royal Marsden Hospital in London wrecking parts of the historic building and threatening cancer treatment and research for its patients. Dozens of patients were evacuated to escape the flames which tore across sections of the roof of the world class cancer hospital.

It's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin. It plays havoc with the minds and the bodies of addicts, filling emergency wards with dangerous, psychotic patients. But little is known about the long term effects of the drug or even how to treat the addiction. And health services are not prepared for the chaos ice has just started to unleash. This documentary reports on the hidden epidemic.

Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency and said Fay could threaten the state with a 'major disaster.' It has already killed several people in the Caribbean and authorities say it's gaining strength. (August 16)

Toogie and his experience at the County Hospital.

The bio-team from Kyoto University announced their discovery on 20th. Nov, 2007 along with another team from the University of Wisconsin in the U.S. who'd made the same breakthough during separate research. It's expected this development will clear a major ethical roadblock to the medical use of the technology.

Its cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin. It plays havoc with the minds and the bodies of addicts, filling emergency wards with dangerous, psychotic patients. But little is known about the long term effects of the drug or even how to treat the addiction. And health services are not prepared for the chaos ice has just started to unleash. This weeks documentary reports on the hidden epidemic. “These are the most out of control, most violent human beings I’ve seen in my whole life and Ive been around a long time”, despairs Dr Gordian Fulde, Head of the Emergency Unit at St Vincents hospital. “It makes heroin seem like the good old days.”

In a move expected to put off elections due in January Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule and deployed troops across the capital in a bid to reassert his flagging authority against political rivals and Islamist militants. The state of emergency came after a tide of rising violence and political turmoil in the country.

You are more likely to be killed by an infection than any other disease and of all the people in the history of the world who have died of anything, half were killed by infections carried by mosquitoes. Yet nobody seems to have made the connection between insects and disease until a little over a century ago.