p2pnet.net News:- US online broker Ameritrade says it’s lost account information for up to 200,000 customers.
This is the latest in a series of incidents in which personal data have gone missing, or have been stolen.
In recent cases, hackers penetrated Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis database and stole confidential information on close to 310,000 people; and, ChoicePoint admits personal information on 145,000 Americans, "may have been compromised" when people posing as small business customers got into its database...
Lebanese Officials Have Found Last Missing Sample of Killer Flu Virus (4/20/05
By BASSEM MROUE | Associated Press April 20, 2005
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese authorities on Wednesday found the world's last missing sample of the killer influenza virus and are keeping it in a "safe place," a Health Ministry official said.
The sample was found at Beirut's International Airport and officials are waiting for orders from the U.N. World Health Organization on whether to destroy in Beirut or send it back to them....
Suspicious Angolans hiding sick relatives from health workers (Marburg Virus Outbreak in Africa)
LUANDA, Angola -- Disease experts struggling to contain the largest recorded outbreak of the Marburg virus said Tuesday it will take weeks to determine whether a long-term crisis can be averted in Angola, where the disease already has killed at least 194 people....
Mysterious Disease Kills More Than 6000 Animals In Afghanistan
A mystery disease has killed more than 6,000 animals in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan. Badakhshan lies near the border with China and Tajikistan and a majority of its residents rely on agriculture.
So far in the past two weeks more than 6,000 animals, largely goats, sheep and cows, have perished as a result of the outbreak. Although the authorities are waiting for test results, carried out by foreign aid workers, to find the cause of the epidemic....
Barrie Cops Hunt Mysterious Poison Van ( Canada - 4/20/05)
POLICE ARE still hunting for a mysterious white van that allegedly sold toxic milk in Barrie that so far has sickened four people with E. coli. The van was parked near a school in the south end of Barrie where someone was seen selling raw, unpasteurized milk that was apparently infected with E. coli O157....
Thousands Of Waffle House Diners Possibly Exposed To Hepatitis (TN - 4/20/05)
Worker At Eastern Tennessee Restaurant Infected With Hepatitis A
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Health officials are offering free shots to people who ate at an eastern Tennessee restaurant where a food server was infected with hepatitis A.
SYMPTOMS: Jaundice Fatigue Abdominal pain Loss of appetite Nausea Diarrhea Fever RESOURCES Overview CDC Info.
The restaurant estimates as many as 5,000 people who ate at the Waffle House in Clinton between April 5 and 15 may have been exposed to the viral liver disease..
Lebanese officials have found last missing sample of killer flu virus
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