A 62-year-old great-grandmother has become one of the oldest women in the world to successfully give birth.The healthy six-pound, nine-ounce baby boy is the 12th child born to Janise Wulf, who also has 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Her oldest child is 40.Family members said Friday’s delivery went smoothly, despite health concerns involving Wulf, who has diabetes and has been blind since birth.Baby Adam is the second child born to Wulf and third husband, Scott. Their other son is 3-1/2. Scott Wulf, who is 48 years old, said he’d always wanted children. He said their two sons, born through in-vitro fertilization, are beyond what he’d hoped was possible....
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 Bird Flu Isn't Becoming More Transmissible to Humans |
The virus that causes bird flu hasn't become more easily transmissible to humans as the disease spreads in birds across Europe, the World Health Organization said. The H5N1 virus has undergone ``a number of changes,'' none of which make the virus more easily spread from birds to humans or from person to person, the Geneva-based agency said in a statement on its Web site today. Those changes include the ability to be carried by migratory waterfowl over long distances and kill them in large numbers, the WHO said. ``Human infections remain a rare event,'' the WHO said. At least 92 of the 170 people known to have been infected with avian influenza have died, mainly in Asia, according to the WHO. Most of the people who have contracted the virus handled infected poultry or came in contact with their excrement. No human cases have been linked to exposure to wild birds. Cooking meat and eggs properly kills the virus, according to the WHO. ...
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| Nigerian militants claim attacks |
The group holding nine foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta say they have attacked another oil facility on Monday and blown up a military vessel. Three Americans and a Briton and Filipino were among those abducted on Saturday while laying a Shell pipeline. Oil giant Shell has shut down its operations in the west of the delta and has cut production by 450,000 barrels a day, one-fifth of Nigeria's oil output. The latest attacks have not been confirmed by the Nigerian authorities. But the BBC's Alex Last says that what is worrying for the oil industry is that these militants have proved they can launch repeated coordinated attacks before retreating to their camps hidden amongst the forests and creeks of the Nigel Delta. ...
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| US threatens to cut Iraq aid over Tehran links |
In a blunt two-way warning aimed at stemming both ethnic divisions and growing Iranian influence in Iraq, the US Ambassador in Baghdad threatened to cut American aid to the country unless its new government moved away from sectarian agendas."Sectarian and ethnic conflict is the fundamental problem in Iraq,"said Zalmay Khalilzad after talks to form a new government again stumbled today over disagreements between Shias, Sunni Arabs and Kurds. "American taxpayers expect their money to be spent properly. We are not going to invest the resources of the American people into forces run by people who are sectarian."...
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| Farmers told to plan for bird flu |
Poultry farmers are being told to prepare to move their birds inside in case avian flu hits the UK. While it was not inevitable the virus would arrive, the risk had increased, Tony Blair's spokesman said. EU farm ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the spread of the virus, which has now reached France. UK ministers said it was still not necessary to lock up Britain's 20 million free-range poultry, despite some experts backing it.The National Farmers' Union said such a move would be a "massive over-reaction". There are an estimated 200 million birds on farms across the UK and between 10% and 15% are free-range. Current British policy is that birds would be ordered inside only if the disease was found in the UK. ...
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| Winner of the Record $365 Million Powerball Jackpot Remains a Mystery |
Whoever won the nation's biggest jackpot has an open invitation to return to the convenience store where the winning ticket was bought and share the wealth. "If I sold the ticket to them I hope they'd share in the winnings at least, even one-tenth of a percent would suit me just fine," said Stacey Carey, a clerk at the U-Stop on West O St. No one had come forward Sunday to claim the record $365 million Powerball jackpot, said Nebraska Lottery spokesman Brian Rockey. With the office closed for Presidents Day, the winner may not be known until Tuesday, if then. Jim Haynes, acting director of the Nebraska Lottery, said large jackpot winners "tend to wait until they have sought legal counsel or financial counsel." ...
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