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BIOHAZARD OUTBREAK LINKS 2008-2011 = 1,627
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January 2009
- 42 die of meningitis in Uganda (30 January 2009)
- Meningitis kills 132 and debilitates 900 in Meghalaya, India (30 January 2009)
- Bacteria found in College Creek in Virginia (30 January 2009)
- 3 mares quarantined because of possible exposure to a stallion which tested possible for contagious equine metritis in Virginia (30 January 2009)
- Flu causes 300 absences at a school in Livingston, Michigan (30 January 2009)
- Whooping cough hits Kalamazoo, Michigan (29 January 2009)
- Woman dies of bird flu in China (24 January 2009)
- 1 infected with Ebola Reston virus in Philippines (24 January 2009)
- Person dies of Legionaries disease in Painted Post, New York (23 January 2009)
- Bat disease spreads to New Jersey (23 January 2009)
- As many as 60,000 turkeys may be culled because of bird flu on a farm near Abbotsford, British Columbia (23 January 2009)
- Hib meningitis kills 1 infant and infects 4 others in Minnesota (23 January 2009)
- Coliform bacteria found in water in Wareham, England (22 January 2009)
- 2 birds die of botulism in Cooks River, Australia (21 January 2009)
- Bird flu confirmed in India (21 January 2009)
- Rabies kills 6 in Indonesia (21 January 2009)
- Yellow band disease (YBD) which infects coral colonies is getting worse (21 January 2009)
- Cows contract foot and mouth disease in 2 provinces in Vietnam (20 January 2009)
- 32 patients and 13 staff infected by winter vomiting bug in a hospital in Sandwell, England (20 January 2009)
- Norwalk like virus closes 2 units at a hospital in Kitchener, Ontario (20 January 2009)
- 12,000 chickens and ducks culled because of bird flu in Nepal (20 January 2009)
- Teenager dies of bird flu in China (20 January 2009)
- Coliform found in cakes in Shanghai, China (20 January 2009)
- Horses may have been exposed to contagious equine metritis (CEM) in Arkansas (19 January 2009)
- ***** MRSA spreading among healthy children – MRSA infects 94,000 and kills 19,000 Americans annually (19 January 2009)
- New bird flu cases in Hong Kong revive fears of human pandemic (04 January 2009)
- New California law requires its 400 state hospitals to publicly reveal their infection rates responsible for 9,600 deaths in 2008 (02 January 2009)
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