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...study highlights the fact that indoor air pollution can't be taken lightly. "It's important to appreciate that most of the air we breathe - whether in our homes, our cars or our offices - is indoors," says Weschler. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 90% of our time is spent indoors. According to Weschler, indoor pollution either seeps in from outside (such as particulate matter from car exhaust, ground-level ozone and noxious gases, like sulfur dioxide, which comes from fuel combustion and factories) or originates inside (tobacco smoke, cooking gas, vapors from paint). In general, concentrations of volatile organic...
...report from Britain's Health and Safety Executive failed to determine how the virus may have escaped from the site. Officials spent the last three days scrutinizing Merial Animal Health, the British arm of U.S.-based Merial Ltd, which recently produced 10,000 litres of foot-and-mouth virus culture during vaccine preparation. There have been media speculation that recent flooding in the U.K. helped spread the virus from the Merial lab, but the report said waterborne release had not been confirmed and that release via contamination of a lab employee or visitor remains a "real possibility" (the foot...
...Biosecurity officials spent Monday scouring the high-security site, which is shared by the government's Institute for Animal Health and a private pharmaceutical company, Merial Animal Health, the British arm of U.S.-based Merial Ltd. Reports in British media said investigators were focusing on the Merial facility because it has recently done research on the 01 BFS67 strain, in an effort to determine whether human error or a breach in biosecurity - such as a faulty ventilation system - could be to blame...
Sachs, who is the chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will also assume the role of senior vice president in charge of all medically related activities, the press release said. Sachs has been at Beth Israel since 1989, and he also spent time working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the early 1980s...
Allegra E. C. Fisher ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a special concentrator in ecology and development in Leverett House. She has spent seven weeks, not years, hiking near, not in, Tibet...