Jul 10, 2008

Product recalls: smoked salmon (AP)

AP - The following recall has been announced:

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Jul 10, 2008

Measles outbreak hits 127 people in 15 states (Reuters)

A volunteer prepares a dose of the rubella vaccine in a classroom during a campaign to eliminate the virus in Port-au-Prince November 19, 2007. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)Reuters - The biggest U.S. outbreak of measles since 1997 has sickened 127 people in 15 states, most of whom were not vaccinated against the highly contagious viral illness, federal health officials said on Wednesday.



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Jul 10, 2008

Female inmates doing time on Calif. fire lines (AP)

Tracy Violet, from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's conservation camp program, is part of a female fire crew working in the vicinity of the Gap wildfire Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in Goleta, Calif. Violet is one of 28 female convicts working the front lines of the nine-day-old wildfire ripping through Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - Tracey Johnson wields a chain saw, tosses branches and rakes brush under the punishing sun and a heavy pack as smoke from a raging wildfire looms over the mountains nearby.



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