Tag: sanitation
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Officials: Zika found in South Beach; spraying not practical
MIAMI (AP) — South Beach has been identified as a second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, and containing it there will be difficult because high-rise buildings and strong winds make it impractical to spray the neighborhood from the air, officials said Friday.
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Hospice teams may be overlooking teenaged family members
By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Teens with dying parents don’t benefit as much from hospice services as older members of the family do, a new study suggests. Most of the surveyed adolescents with a parent in hospice had zero or limited contact with staff, researchers reported in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.…