dilluns, 9 de març del 2009

News

New 1:

Health officials in Brasil say that an outbreak of dengue fever has infected more than 32,000 people in Rio de Janeiro state and claimed at least 47 lives.

The Federal Health Minister of Brasil says he is already treating the situation in Rio, where about 51 new cases of the disease are reported every hour, as an epidemic.Temporao says the government will open a crisis center in Rio state on Monday to coordinate efforts between the federal and state government and the armed force to fight the disease.


New 2:

Woman shot to death in her bar in Salamanca province
A man from Fuentiguinaldo who is 64 years old is in custody because he killed on Sunday one Moroccan woman when she was runing in Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca.


New 3:

Obama's move overturns an order signed by President Bush in 2001 that barred the National Institutes of Health from funding research on embryonic stem cells beyond using 60 cell lines that existed at that time.

Obama also signed a presidential memorandum establishing greater independence for federal science policies and programs.