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Conservative House leader Gerard Deltell moved a motion Wednesday calling for PHAC to be found in contempt of Parliament and its president, Iain Stewart, to be summoned before the bar of the House to be admonished by the Speaker... Rota ruled that the Trudeau government has not complied with an order, passed by the Commons earlier this month, to produce the documents. As such, he said there’s a prima facie case that it has breached MPs’ privileges... Deltell’s motion was debated at length Wednesday and will be put to a vote Thursday. If it passes — which seems likely given...

Connecticut placed six West Africans who recently arrived in the United States under quarantine for possible Ebola exposure, a move that comes as the United States starts new restrictions on those coming from the countries hardest hit by the deadly virus. The family of six West Africans, who arrived Saturday and were planning to live in the United States, will be watched for 21 days, Connecticut state health authorities said Thursday. Officials have yet to say where the family came from. ... Ebola fears have also touched one of the world's most reclusive countries, North Korea, which will bar entry...

HIV Selectively Suppresses Anti-HIV Defense Cells5-4-2 A new study confirms what HIV researchers until now only suspected: HIV selectively disables the immune system's response against the virus by disproportionately infecting the very cells designed to fight it. In fact, CD4+ T cells programmed to fight HIV are two to five times more likely to be infected with HIV than CD4+T cells programmed to take on other pathogens. "This finding not only helps us better understand how the virus causes disease, it should also aid in developing effective HIV vaccines," comments Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of...