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Company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued
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| “VeraSight™ Global (VSG) represents the user interface for the government and public health application of Foreshadow™, Veratect’s comprehensive emerging disease risk operating environment. VeraSight™ Global (VSG), represents a leap forward in the early detection and actionable alert generation of infectious disease risk events worldwide. Moreover, VeraSight™ Global provides early warning for both human and animal diseases that threaten regional and/or global security and economic health.”
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| Company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued |
| McClatchy Newspapers | May 01, 2009 | By Les Blumenthal |
| WASHINGTON — A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two weeks before the World Health Organization offered its initial alert about a public health emergency of international concern.
Both federal and international health officials had access to the warning from Veratect Corp. Later e-mails calling attention to the company’s subsequent report that the disease was possibly spreading in Mexico were sent to 10 o |
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Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion
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According to senior Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron, the only way to end the present drug violence in Mexico is to legalize drugs. What do you think? Please leave a comment… |
| Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion |
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| MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) – Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels.
The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana, 500 milligrams (0.018 ounces) of cocaine and tiny quantities of other drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines. |
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Mexico flu scare empties streets, churches, bars
| Mexico flu scare empties streets, churches, bars |
| AlertNet — Reuters | Apr 26, 2009 | By Helen Popper and Mica Rosenberg |
| * Top soccer matches played in empty stadiums * Mayor says may have to shut down mass transport system * Empty streets in normally vibrant city MEXICO CITY, April 26 (Reuters) – One of the world’s biggest cities slowed to a snail’s pace on Sunday as millions in the Mexican capital hid indoors to avoid infection from a flu virus that has killed up to 81 people. The Roman Catholic faithful listened to mass on the radio rather than go to church, a professional soccer game was played in an emp |
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Deadly new flu breaks out in Mexico, U.S.
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| A police woman wears a mask in Mexico City April 24, 2009. A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (MEXICO SOCIETY HEALTH ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) REUTERS/Str |
| Deadly new flu breaks out in Mexico, U.S. |
| AlertNet dot org — Reuters | Apr 25, 2009 | By Alistair Bell and Noel Randewich |
| MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) – A strain of flu never seen before has killed as many as 61 people in Mexico and has spread into the United States, where eight people have been infected but recovered, health officials said on friday.
Mexico’s government said at least 16 people have died of the disease in central Mexico and that it may also have been responsible for 45 other deaths. The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus in 12 of the Mexican patients had the same genetic |
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| People wear masks inside a bus in Mexico City April 24, 2009. A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday. REUTERS/Felipe Leon (MEXICO DISASTER HEALTH ENVIRONMENT) REUTERS/Stringer/Mexico |
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12 nations open naval warfare exercises off Fla.
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| 12 nations open naval warfare exercises off Fla. |
| Miami Hearld | Apr 20, 2009 | By RON WORD Associated Press Writers |
| MAYPORT NAVAL STATION, Fla. — Navies from the United States and 11 other countries on Monday launched two weeks of war exercises off Florida’s Atlantic coast that will include training in combating piracy and drug smuggling.
Several Latin American countries, Canada and Germany are taking part in UNITAS Gold, which is now in its 50th year and is the Navy’s longest-running yearly exercise. Hundreds of white-uniformed officers held a starting ceremony before embarking on ships, submarines and a |
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Obama’s Demented Drug Policy
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| President Barack Obama just says no to legalization of marijuana today (03.26.09) in his first Internet town hall meeting. (RON EDMONDS/AP) |
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| Daily Beast | Apr 19, 2009 | by Radley Balko |
| The best solution to what’s plaguing Mexico right now is the one topic that will almost assuredly be off the table: legalizing marijuana. read more |
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| he most popular question asked on whitehouse.gov was about the legalization of marijuana and the possible economic benefits of such legislation.
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| President Barack Obama spoke during an ‘open for questions’ town hall meeting on Thursday. Questions were submitted and voted on by citizens via the internet and answered live by the president.
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Private-sector Arms Sales to Mexico Sparsely Monitored by State Department
Private-sector Arms Sales to Mexico Sparsely Monitored by State Department
Narco News | April 5, 2009 | Bill Conroy (see links)
“Large shipments of drugs can come into the Mexican ports or airports…. It’s obvious and logical. The government has to be involved in everything that is corrupt. … You’d have to wipe out the government to wipe out drug trafficking.”
Sandra Avila Beltran, from a recent interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. . . read more
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Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
Mexican forensic investigators work at the scene where 12 bodies were discovered in Tijuana on Sept. 29. The bodies of 11 men and one woman were found dumped in an empty lot next to an elementary school, an hour before students were scheduled to arrive. (AP)
Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
NARCO NEWS: Posted by Kristin Bricker – December 31, 2008 at 8:38 pm A record-breaking 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008, making the drug war more deadly than the drugs Mexico’s daily El Universal, which began counting drug war executions four years ago, reports that 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008. This year’s deaths more than doubled 2007’s total of over 2,700 executions. By El Universal’s estimates, about 8,463 drug executions have occurr
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Los Angeles Times, Graphic content: Mexico under siege
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Mexico suspects ex-drug czar took huge bribes from traffickers
Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 through August of fighting organized crime in Mexico.
Mexico suspects ex-drug czar took huge bribes from traffickers
Noe Ramirez Mandujano arrested, suspected of taking $450,000 a month in bribes
About 30 officials arrested in massive operation investigating collusion with cartels
Report: 4,300 dead this year in war between authorities and narcotics traffickers
Drug cartels pay some officials bribes of $150,000 to $450,000 a month
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — Mexican authorities have detained the country’s former drug czar on suspicion that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers, Mexico’s attorney general said Friday.
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Mexico Drug Wars Spill Across the Border
Few regions of the U.S. are immune to drug-trafficking organizations that have left a trail of death, kidnappings and other crimes. (Image courtesy http://www.gameguru.in/)
Mexico Drug Wars Spill Across the Border
By Sam Quinones and Richard A. Serrano November 16, 2008 The drug violence that has left nearly 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities.
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