Email worm poses as Osama videogram (11/5/04)
By John Leyden Published Friday 5th November 2004 13:42 GMT Emails claiming to contain video clips of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden are likely to be example of a new computer worm.
The Famus-F worm normally arrives in the form of a bilingual English and Spanish email, with the subject line "More terrorism this year". The message body states: "Last speech from Bin Laden. Please forwards this video to everybody." and includes a password - "cnn".
AirTran Flight Makes Emergency Landing Orlando-To-Philadelphia Flight Lands Safely In N.C.(11/5/04)
POSTED: 12:31 pm EST November 5, 2004 UPDATED: 9:57 pm EST November 5, 2004 An AirTran flight that departed from Orlando International Airport Friday was forced to make an emergency landing while on its way to Philadelphia.
The aircraft landed safely at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina after the pilot reported smelling smoke in the cockpit, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.
The jetliner touched down Friday morning, and airport officials said everything appears back to normal now. The passengers on the flight from Orlando to Philadelphia are likely to be put on another plane and sent on their way.
Lithuanians Hunting Missing Radioactive $100 Bill (11/5/04)
Fri Nov 5, 2:12 PM ET Science - Reuters VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanian officials warned the country's 3.5 million citizens on Friday to be on the lookout for a missing radioactive U.S. $100 bank note.
Officials in the ex-Soviet state say they don't know how the note became radioactive, but one theory is that it could have come somewhere in Eastern Europe that still has a high level of post-Chernobyl contamination.
It was discovered in September when it set off alarms at an airport checkpoint and was quarantined in a safe room. But the bank note was reported missing -- probably stolen -- on Tuesday just before it was due to be shipped to a nuclear power plant to be destroyed.
The chief of Lithuania's radioactive substances security agency, Albinas Mastauskas, told Reuters the note was not potent enough to cause burns. But it could pose long-term health risks for children or pregnant women.
In Lithuania, one of the European Union (news - web sites)'s poorest countries, $100 is equivalent to about two-thirds of the monthly minimum wage.
Dozens of students hospitalized after illness outbreak (11/5/04 - Georgia)
Associated Press VILLA RICA, Ga. - Dozens of students from Villa Rica Middle School in Carroll County were taken to a hospital Friday after suffering symptoms of what may have been food poisoning.
School officials said 62 students were transported to Tanner Medical Center in Villa Rica after complaints began shortly before 2 p.m.
Health Department Investigates Possible Food Bourne Illness Death (11/5/04 - Virginia)
A mysterious illness has killed one person in Chesapeake and sickened at least 32 others.
Health Department officials are investigating whether the illness was food bourne. All of the individuals afflicted got sick at the Southeastern Virginia Training Center. They became ill Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.
Most of those sickened have already recovered. Samples from the victims - including the deceased - as well as from the food at the facility have been sent to a state lab in Richmond.
Number sickened by norovirus at Las Vegas Strip hotel tops 1,200 (11/5/04 - Las Vegas - Update)
1:41 p.m. November 5, 2004 LAS VEGAS – The number of people reporting symptoms from a norovirus outbreak at a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino has topped 1,200, the Clark County Health District said.
County health officials and the Flamingo Las Vegas had reported 270 people affected since the illness was reported Oct. 16. The number increased after an investigation, said Brian Labus, the agency's senior epidemiologist.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday that people from Oregon, Washington, Ohio, North Carolina and New York complained of becoming ill.
"We have not seen a large number of employees at any other resorts (become ill)," Tonelli said.
Avian cholera outbreak kills thousands of birds on Great Salt Lake (Utah)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An outbreak of avian cholera, currently killing thousands of birds on Great Salt Lake, is among the biggest in years, state wildlife officials said Friday.
The disease is lethal to waterfowl and other water birds, but does not affect humans.
About 30,000 eared grebes have died on the lake in the latest outbreak. Each fall, about 1.5 million of the small diving birds settle on the lake for refueling before continuing their travel south. The lake gives the birds enough food for them to double their weight before they head on to the southwest and into Mexico.
Some 24 E. Coli Cases Confirmed in N.C. (11/4/04 - NC)
Thu Nov 4, 1:31 PM ET Health - AP RALEIGH, N.C. - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E. coli bacteria (news - web sites), and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo at last month's state fair, authorities said.
Norway ship owner: U.S. stormed his vessel (5 weeks ago)
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Norway's Wilh Wilhelmsen said he still hadn't received an explanation from U.S. authorities for why his liner was boarded and searched in Los Angeles.
Wilhelmsen said five weeks ago, his liner the Tampa was suddenly stormed by about 20 heavily armed commando soldiers while in port at Los Angeles. He said the solders refused to identify themselves or say why they had boarded his ship.
The commandos stripped Norwegian Capt. Ove Overgaard of his command, ransacked the vessel for three hours and searched the crew, said Wilhelmsen.