Archive for August, 2016
Italian Premier taps into a “Reconstruction Czar.”
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016- A 23-year-old student who was injured died at the hospital
- Another body was extracted from the rubble of Amatrice’s Hotel Roma
- The death toll is close to 300
- A handful of people are still missing
- There have been more than 3,200 post-quake aftershocks
- Some 4,000 Italians remain homeless.
At least 11 people were found dead in Japan on Wednesday, most of them elderly residents at a nursing home, as heavy overnight rain from Typhoon Lionrock left towns flooded across the country’s north.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
Congenital infection with Zika virus should be considered a risk factor for hearing loss.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016Leal MC, Muniz LF, Ferreira TS, et al. Hearing Loss in Infants with Microcephaly and Evidence of Congenital Zika Virus Infection — Brazil, November 2015–May 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 30 August 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6534e3.
The total number of Zika virus infections in Singapore has risen to 56.
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016‘….”They are not known to have traveled to Zika-affected areas recently, and are thus likely to have been infected in Singapore,” a statement released by the ministry said….’
