New York City To Get Nuke Detectors

    According to CNN, NYC will get detectors surrounding the city that are supposed to send out an alert if nuclear or dirty bombs are detected being moved into the city by land.

Under the "Securing the Cities" initiative, detectors will be placed along highways, at truck stops, in weigh stations and at other sites on the perimeter of New York, as well as locations closer to the city center, an official said. Locations will not be made public "for obvious reasons," the official said.

   The 2008 budget adds $30 million to the $16 million that has already been spent on the system. Homeland Security says that they want this working this year. I guess we'll see how it goes.

  

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Norovirus Hits Two North Carolina Hospitals

   I figured that I would post this article since this is where I happen to be living at the present time.

AP            Norovirus

By STEVE HARTSOE, Associated Press Writer
Fri Feb 9, 6:44 PM ET

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Two hospitals are asking visitors, especially children, to stay away until they control an outbreak of a highly contagious stomach virus that has sickened patients and staff members.

"We're just asking the community to help out," said Dr. Ward Robinson, an infectious disease specialist at Moses Cone Hospital. "I don't think this is the black plague coming into Greensboro."

Doctors confirmed an outbreak at Moses Cone and believe the virus also hit Wesley Long Hospital. The number of people affected wasn't immediately available, hospital officials said.

Three suspected norovirus cases first appeared Feb. 1 and were not confirmed until Wednesday, Doug Allred, a spokesman for Moses Cone Health System, said Friday.

The hospitals will admit new patients who will be sent to areas considered clear of the virus.

 

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