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Subject: [BPR] - Got the flu yet?
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 08:03:50 -0500

From: owner-bpr@philologos.org

(CBS) U.S. health officials report flu cases are now
widespread, but have yet to reach their peak nationwide. It's
still early winter..."This is the most dramatic flu epidemic
I've seen in my 25 years working in hospitals." says Dr.
Jonathan Metsch of Jersey City Medical Center...Doctors at the
Centers for Disease Control say nearly 900 people died from flu
or pneumonia in the week between Christmas and New Year's. But
none of them are using the word epidemic. In fact, the way the
government's researchers see it, this season is more typical
than terrible.

Full story: http://www.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,147023-
311,00.shtml

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20 Percent of Dutch May Get Flu

The Associated Press Friday, Jan. 7, 2000; 10:34 a.m. EST

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands –– Health officials Friday said a flu
epidemic sweeping the Netherlands will infect up to 20 percent
of the country before winter ends.

Full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
srv/aponline/20000107/aponline103436_000.htm

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More flu-hit hospitals are forced to use lorries as morgues
By Celia Hall, Medical Editor

REFRIGERATED lorries are once again being used by the NHS as
temporary morgues in a grim repetition of scenes outside
hospitals last winter.

Hospitals on the south coast have been forced to store bodies
in trailers after a high number of deaths, nearly 40 per cent of
which followed the flu. At Eastbourne District General Hospital,
60 bodies have been kept in an articulated lorry parked in the
hospital grounds.

This follows more than 80 deaths between Christmas Eve and Jan
4. Of these, 31 people died from pneumonia after the flu virus,
a spokesman said. In the same period last year, 28 people died
in total.

Full story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=001851641145319&rtmo=r3hE93tX
&atmo=gggggggK&pg=/et/00/1/8/nhosp08.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Internet threat to Israel, say rabbis
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 08:13:06 -0500

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Internet threat to Israel, say rabbis
By Alan Philps in Jerusalem

ISRAEL'S leading orthodox rabbis have issued a ruling banning
the internet from Jewish homes, arguing that it is "1,000 times
more dangerous than television" and threatens the survival of
the country.

The ruling, issued by the Council of Torah Sages, is an attempt
by the rabbis to halt the infiltration of "sin and abomination"
from the internet into the homes of the ultra-orthodox, whose
children have hitherto been shielded from the temptations of the
modern world.

Full story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000114832908976&rtmo=VMwqMD3K&atmo
=ggggg3JK&pg=/et/00/1/8/wisr08.html

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Subject: [BPR] - US says Russia, China could end up as threats
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 09:05:23 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

U.S. Says Russia, China Could End Up As Threats

WASHINGTON, Jan 7, 2000 -- (Reuters) A top architect of U.S. foreign
policy said on Thursday Russia and China could emerge as threats to the
United States if their political evolution took the wrong turn.

National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said in remarks at the National
Press Club that a critical question for the next generation was "whether our
former adversaries Russia and China will emerge as stable, prosperous,
democratic partners of the United States."

Full Story:
http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=123431&text

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Subject: [BPR] - UK flu victims so numerous some being sent to French hospitals
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 09:17:39 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

              UK Flu Victims So
         Numerous Some Being
      Sent To French Hospitals
                          By Martin Wallace in Calais
                    http://www.the-sun.co.uk/news/2486936
                                   1-7-99

            A crisis-hit NHS (England) hospital has begged French
            doctors to treat British flu victims on the other side of the
            Channel.

            The desperate SOS was sent to a Calais hospital as
            London ran out of intensive care beds - and only a handful
            remained across the rest of Britain.

            Last night the French consultant who revealed the plea, Dr
            Herve Peneau, said: "We have never been asked to help in
            this way before so the problem in the UK must be very
            bad."

            Dr Peneau, who runs the intensive care unit at Saint Pierre
            hospital in Calais, had to turn down the request because all
            his beds were occupied. But he promised to help if any
            become available.

            The 52-year-old consultant said: "I was phoned by a
            London physician on Wednesday asking me to take some
            of his patients as he had no beds left and was struggling to
            find one anywhere. He told me the nearest empty bed to
            him was way up in Edinburgh, and we are much closer.

            "I wasn't surprised to get the call because I'd heard about
            Britain's flu epidemic. But sadly I couldn't help."

            Dr Peneau also revealed that a Health Department official
            contacted him yesterday to ask if he had admitted any
            Brits after the Government learned of the unnamed
            London hospital's plea. Ailing flu victims could be whisked
            by train from London to Calais through the Channel
            Tunnel in under two hours.

            The 125-mile journey would take a fraction of the time
            needed to transfer a patient to Edinburgh, 420 miles away.

            The French connection emerged 24 hours after The Sun
            told how packed NHS hospitals were buckling under the
            strain of the nationwide flu epidemic.

            Many victims have developed more serious chest
            conditions like pneumonia. Experts have warned the crisis
            could last another three weeks - and the number flattened
            by the bug continued to rise yesterday.

            Dr Peneau supervises ten intensive care beds, six casualty
            beds and six paediatric beds in the eight-storey Saint
            Pierre.

            He said: "Thankfully we don't have an epidemic here but
            the beds are full because we are always busy this time of
            the year. "I'm not surprised there are no beds in Britain
            because the problem is so bad."

            He added: "As we are in the north of France and our
            communications are good, it makes sense to send patients
            here from England if we have the space. We often get
            similar requests for help from Belgium."

            The 1,000-bed hospital was opened in 1975. But French
            health chiefs say it is too old and overcrowded. And it is
            due to be closed and replaced by a modern infirmary
            costing =A344million.

            Last night the Health Department said doctors were free to
            "make phone calls and ask for help whenever they like."

            But a spokesman added: "We are not in the business of
            trying to make transfers overseas and would rather make
            provision for treating patients in this country."

            For the second day running, there were only 11 intensive
            care beds available across the whole of Britain yesterday.

            At some hospitals, doctors had to use theatre recovery
            rooms to treat seriously ill patients.

            The Health Department insisted the NHS is coping better
            than it did during last winter's fiasco even though it is
            under more pressure.

            And the new 24-hour help-line NHS Direct, staffed by
            nurses, is helping to ease the burden on doctors.

            It has taken 160,000 calls since Christmas. And in more
            than 50,000 cases, nurses were able to tell patients how to
            help themselves. The number is 0845 4647.

            FLU victims went vinda-loony yesterday after The Sun
            told how eating spicy curries can beat the bug.

            Readers rushed to follow the hot tip given by Professor
            Ron Eccles of the Common Cold Centre, Cardiff.

            All major supermarket chains reported ready-made Indian
            meals being snatched off shelves.

            A Somerfield spokeswoman said: "Like people's
            temperatures, sales of our takeaway curries have been
            soaring."

            And Sainsbury's sold more than 50,000 curries yesterday,
            up 15 per cent.

            Darren Smith the firm's curry buyer, said: "There has
            been an incredible response to the Prof Eccles' advice. In
            some stores customers have been clearing our shelves."

            Prof Eccles said: "There has been a scientific study into
            the effects of curries " and they really do work.

http://www.sightings.com/politics6/moved.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - The Living Buddha
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 09:22:54 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

January 7, 2000

The Living Buddha Recognised By Both Beijing And
The Dalai Lama

The living Buddha, a 14-year-old boy considered the third highest leader of
Tibetan Buddhism, is one of the rare religious figures who is accepted by
both Beijing and its arch foe the Dalai Lama.

His secret flight from Tibet to Dharamsala in northern India, apparently on
foot and at the height of the treacherous winter in the Himalayas, will be a
blow to Beijing which has tried to push him forward as an alternative to the
Dalai Lama.

Born to a nomadic family in 1985, Ugyen Trinley Dorje was enthroned the
17th Gyalwa Karmapa in September 1992 at Tsurphu monastery, some 35
kilometres (21 miles) outside Lhasa where he has been living ever since.

It was the first time the Chinese Communist leaders recognised the
reincarnation of a living Buddha, at a time when Beijing was trying to launch
a dialogue with the Tibetan government in exile.

Full Story:
http://www.insidechina.com/features.php3?id=123486

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