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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a long-standing federal ban on the sale of small turtles, the reptiles continue to be sold in the US and to make owners, usually young children, sick with Salmonella -- sometimes very sick, health officials warn in a... Full Article at Reuters Health: eLine
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byline goes here The appeal of those little pet turtles escaped us, even before we first heard about their role as carriers of disease. Give us a dirty rat any day. Full Article at NPR
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a long-standing federal ban on the sale of small turtles, the reptiles continue to be sold in the U.S. and to make owners, usually young children, sick with Salmonella -- sometimes very sick, health officials warn in... Full Article at Reuters
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About half of New York City workers reported having no paid sick days, an increase over last year, according to survey of more than 1,200 New Yorkers by the Community Service Society of New York and A Better Balance, a legal center that works on family... Full Article at The New York Times
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Advising people to stay home from work if they come down with the H1N1 virus is, in many cases, like advising them to take a pay cut. That's because 34 percent of U.S. workers don't get paid sick leave, according to the Labor Department. Full Article at Indianapolis Star
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In this outbreak, 59 percent of patients were 10 years of age or younger, and 33 percent of all patients interviewed were hospitalized
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No one has succeeded in making a Salmonella-free turtle ... Antibiotic treatment of eggs often results in turtles with drug-resistant Salmonella infections.
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The long and short of it is, this issue is alive ... We are looking at it.
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We are urging Sen. McCaskill to side with the American people — not big insurance — and use her influence to make sure Congress delivers a strong federal public health option ... It’s time to make health care accessible and affordable for all Americans.
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