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Congress steps into the fit-testing fight
The battle over annual fit-testing isnt over yet. The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) rule became effective on July 1, but two weeks later, the House appropriations committee approved an amendment that would prohibit OSHA from spending funds to enforce annual fit-testing. -
CDC to U.S. hospitals: Be wary of Asian avian influenza threat
If infectious disease specialists used a color-coded alert system, the color would be on yellow, for elevated. And its edging up to orange. While the threat of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has subsided, public health experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the potential for pandemic influenza coming from a highly pathogenic avian influenza strain in Asia. -
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