Results tagged “healthprotectionagency”

The Health Protection Agency and NHS London have issued a warning to heroin users after a second individual tested positive for anthrax in the capital, through what is believed to be a contaminated cutting agent present in the drug. HPA director Brian McCloskey stated that, until found otherwise, "it must be assumed that all heroin in London carries the risk of anthrax contamination", though he stressed that the risk to the general population was negligible, as person-to-person transmission is extremely rare. 27 people in Scotland have contracted anthrax through the contaminated drug since December; nine of them have since died. more ›

A BBC Freedom of Information request has unearthed the troubling fact that little more that a third of London's nursing staff have bothered to take up the swine flu vaccine. more ›

The Health Protection Agency are warning that we'll be seeing even more sick spotty kiddies in the coming months if more tots aren't vaccinated, so they're making a new push to inform parents. In Lewisham, MMR vaccine uptake is currently 64.3%, while the experts say 95% of children need to be immunised to stop the disease's spread. more ›

Close to 300 cases of measles have been reported to City and Hackney Primary Care Trust over the last 5 months. It is thought that the outbreak is directly linked to increasing numbers of parents deciding against the MMR vaccination for their darlings in the light of the well publicised but now discredited research which linked it to autism. With hundreds of spotty kids sickening in East London direct action is being taken by... more ›

The report focuses on "potential risks to public health posed by faecal pollution of human or animal origin" in the river. That's poo to you and me. more ›

Toxic moths were discovered last year in Park Royal, but scientists figured the moths wouldn't survive the winter, and so wouldn't be a worry this year. Those scientists? Yeah, they were wrong. more ›

The radioactive saga continues with news bouncing all over the Internet this evening, but none of it seeming to get us any closer to who done it. One person not spilling his guts (this side of Christmas at least) is Litvinenko himself according to the Russian News & Information Agency: more ›

It's times like this that make it especially scary to be a black-out drinker. more ›

A man was shot in the early hours of this morning during an 'anti-terror raid' in Forest Gate. more ›