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Terror in Russian town as boy is struck down with BUBONIC PLAGUE
THOUSANDS of Russians are being given emergency vaccinations against the Bubonic Plague after a boy contracted the deadly infectious disease while skinning a marmot. Vaccine is being rushed to remote Kosh-Agach in the Altai Mountains in a bid to stop a full scale outbreak of the Black Death infection. The ten year old boy...
Woman shot as extra officers deployed to investigate FOUR attacks in UK county town
A WOMAN is in hospital after a spate of shootings in an historic British county, last night. Police have deployed extra officers to Bedford after the separate attacks took place just hours apart. One woman was shot in the arm after shots were fired at at a property in Faraday Square at around 10pm. She was taken to...
This is the most enterprising town in Britain
When you think of cutting-edge design, savvy start-ups and big money, Silicon Valley probably comes to mind – not the English countryside Northampton has the UK’s second highest rate of employment: 79%. But head for a sleepy county in the less glamorous British Midlands, and you’d be surprised: beyond the...
190 people in this Indiana town were diagnosed with HIV
AUSTIN, Ind. — From the start of the HIV outbreak here, health officials emphasized that nothing set Scott County apart from many other rural communities where opioid drug use had become an epidemic. This could happen anywhere, people were told. Many people here had viewed HIV as a big-city disease, something that might...