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Dengue fever is one of two mosquito-borne illnesses that have Florida health officials increasingly worried about a major outbreak. The other one is West Nile virus, which first showed up in the United States in 1999 and quickly moved south. Last year, 53 of Florida?s 67 counties were under medical alert for the virus.

Now officials worry that dengue fever will also spread to Florida. In recent years, there have only been about four cases a year, all imported by people who had were bitten in other countries.
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Three former co-workers of Michael J. Fox all have Parkinson’s disease, causing speculation that the disease may have an environmental cause. Nobody knows what causes Parkinson’s disease. Scientists look for disease clusters, hoping this will help them turn up clues that can help with the search for a cure.

Fox and the three other people with Parkinson’s disease were among 125 people who in the late 1970s worked on a Canadian television show called Leo & Me. Four cases among 125 people — especially young people — is highly suspicious. Each year Parkinson’s strikes only about 1 in 10,000 people, nearly always much older people than the sitcom cast and crew.
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Remember Anthrax What happened to the investigation Where are the culprits The answer is that the FBI appears to have put the case on a back burner. In this chilling article, Wayne Madsen offers some insights into why that might be. Hitler burned the Reichstag, the German Capitol Building, and blamed it on a Jew in order to create an atmosphere of terror and make certain that a frightened populace gave him the dictatorial powers he wanted. Did elements within the US government do something similar with the anthrax scare
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A woman is eight weeks pregnant with a clone, according to Severino Antinori, one of the fertility specialists who is supervising the pregnancy. ?One woman among thousands of infertile couples in the program is eight weeks pregnant,? Antinori says. This is the world?s first human cloning pregnancy.

Antinori’s colleague, Panos Zavos at the Andrology Institute of America in Lexington, Kentucky, previously announced that they planned to clone a baby by the end of 2001. They have refused to reveal the name or nationality of the woman, but say that almost 5000 couples are now involved in the program.
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