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H7N9 bird flu: human-to-human transmission possible?
"Flu experts have long warned once a particularly deadly strain of the flu, as H7N9 appears to be - it has killed 17 of the 87 people it has infected - becomes transmissible between humans, it can quickly spread ( Read more... ) -
Texas plant expolsion
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, D.L. Wilson, told Reuters the blast had probably caused "hundreds of casualties" and damaged many homes. He added that a nearby nursing home had collapsed from the explosion and that people were believed trapped inside. emergency, danger, technological catastrophe, disaster, catastrophe, explosionH7N9 bird flu vaccine development is problematic
"There hasn't been enough time to produce even the seed strain to make H7N9 vaccine, let alone small batches of a prototype vaccine for testing. So researchers haven't had a chance to see how a vaccine against this new flu strain might work in people ( Read more... )Oyster Creek nuclear plant can loose power from Hurricane Sandy
"If Oyster Creek were to lose its offsite power, and frankly that’s really likely, there would be no way cool that nuclear fuel that’s in the fuel pool until they get the power reestablished"More on Lousiana sinkhole: radiation
"..radium levels at Bayou Corne's sinkhole are not within safe limits, but instead, roughly 15 times higher than the state's acceptable level, according to one of the nation's leading environmental attorney's Stuart Smith." danger, sinkhole, disaster, hazardous substances, radioactive contamination, radiation, hazardBLEVE danger in the Louisiana sinkhole situation?
Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion (BLEVE ( Read more... )The Lousiana sinkhole can cause a huge explosion
A possible breach of a butane-filled well 1500 feet from Bayou Corne's sinkhole, the size of three football fields, is so "very serious," it has Assumption Parish sheriff and local residents ordered to evacuate worried about a catastrophic explosion, one according to scientists in an Examiner investigation, would be in the range of one and a half ( Read more... )Louisiana sinkhole
"(CNN) -- Louisiana officials are investigating whether an underground salt cavern may be responsible for a large sinkhole that has swallowed 100-foot-tall cypress trees and prompted evacuations in a southern Louisiana bayou ( Read more... )