Environmental Health

"CDC: Deadliest Drug Resistance Comes From Hospitals, Not Farms"

A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ranks the causes of the antibiotic resistance in bacteria that kills an estimated 23,000 Americans every year. One surprise is the finding that hospitals are an even bigger source of resistant bacteria than are food animal feeding operations.

Source: NPR, 09/18/2013

Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Lead to 23,000 Deaths a Year: CDC

"Federal health officials reported Monday that at least two million Americans fall ill from antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year and that at least 23,000 die from those infections, putting a hard number on a growing public health threat. It was the first time that federal authorities quantified the effects of organisms that many antibiotics are powerless to fight."

Source: NY Times, 09/17/2013

"Top Obama Aide Worked the Pavillion Fracking Investigation"

"Pavillion, Wyo., is a tiny community of fewer than 300 people, nearly 2,000 miles from Washington, D.C., in a deeply Republican state that President Obama never had any chance of winning. But Obama's top aide on energy issues, Heather Zichal, took a significant interest in the community's water supply in late 2011 and early 2012."

Source: EnergyWire, 09/12/2013

"EPA Documents Raise Doubts Over Intent of New Nuclear-Response Guide"

"WASHINGTON -- Newly obtained government documents are prompting concern among critics that Environmental Protection Agency officials are seeking to use the organization’s new guide for nuclear-incident response to relax public health standards, but the agency is denying the claim."

Source: Global Security Newswire, 09/12/2013

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