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FRANCE: CJD VICTIMS FAMILIES FILE LEGAL SUIT
French/Nat
The families of two French victims of the brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have filed a legal suit in a French court charging that authorities in France, Britain and Europe did not act quickly enough to stamp out B-S-E...
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UK: 6 YEAR OLD GIRL STANDS IN FOR PRINCESS DIANA AT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
English/Nat
A six-year-old girl will stand in for Diana, Princess of Wales at a public engagement on Thursday.
Diana was due to launch a fund-raising appeal at the Osteopathic Centre for Children in London, and cerebral palsy sufferer...
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Rio looks forward to 2016 Olympics
As London's Olympic Games come to an end, preparations for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro are well underway.
While Brazil's Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls get stuck into their training programmes, construction workers are upgrading...
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The boom in cheap care abroad for Alzheimer's patients
The costs caring for Alzheimer's patients is rising sharply in the West and more and more families are considering whether their elderly would receive better care in countries like Thailand where round the clock attention is much...
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Patient drug trials for a possible Alzheimer's treatment
LEAD IN: Hundreds of clinical trials are being held around the world to discover a successful treatment for Alzheimer's disease.This week's UK's Dementia Awareness Week is urging more patients to take part in studies. It says just three...
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Venezuela receives medicine from China for Zika
The Chinese government donated 96 tonnes of medicine to Venezuela to help patients suffering from zika virus and Guillain-Barre syndrome.The shipment included therapy fluid and immunoglobulin G used to help keep patients hydrated and to...
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Doctors Share Memories of Ali, Final Days
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus056981Former physicians of boxing icon Muhammad Ali and staff from the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center in Phoenix, Arizona shared memories of the late sports hero as well as insight into his final...
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Walking and talking to help ward off dementia
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Staying active and socialising are two ways of helping to keep your brain healthy as you get older, according to dementia researchers.
Now scientists in the US are combining both those activities in a...
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Art and drama help people deal with trauma
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Childhood cases of mysterious illness continuing to rise in US
Childhood cases of a mysterious paralyzing illness are continuing to mount in the US, and health officials say this year's count could surpass the numbers seen in similar outbreaks in 2014 and 2016.
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Formula 1 star drives down Champs Elysees
1. Various of roll out of Michael Schumacher's Formula One Ferrari outside the St James Hotel
2. Tracking shot of fans gathered on the Champs-Elysees
3. Schumacher driving down the Champs Elysees with motorcycles trailing him
4. Cutaway...
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Nun tells of healing after praying to John Paul II
1. Wide of Sister Marie Simon-Pierre with a portrait of Pope John Paul II, surrounded by media
2. Close of Simon-Pierre with portrait
3. Wide of Simon-Pierre arriving at press conference
4. Mid of Simon-Pierre smiling
5. Close-up of...
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Rob Manfred, Joe Torre and more than 160 Major League Baseball employees took the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for the ALS Association. (Aug. 20)
Commissioner-elect Rob Manfred, Hall of Famer Joe Torre and more than 160 baseball employees poured ice water over their heads outside the league's Manhattan headquarters Wednesday to raise money for ALS.
For every employee involved in...
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GEORGIA: NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN TO RID STREETS OF STRAY DOGS
Russian/Eng/Nat
It's a dog's life these days in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
An outbreak of rabies in the former Soviet republic last year has led to a nationwide campaign to rid the streets of stray dogs.
And there are thousands...
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USA: NEW YORK: SPRAYING CAMPAIGN TO WIPE OUT MOSQUITO (2)
English/Nat
New York City is fighting a deadly enemy from the air.
Officials are turning to aerial insecticide spraying to fight an outbreak of mosquito-borne Saint Louis encephalitis.
It's already killed three people and made at least...
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GERMANY: BSE: EU PROPOSE BAN ON ANIMAL MEAL
German/Nat
The European Commission has proposed a six-month ban on meat and bone meal in fodder in an effort to eradicate mad cow disease and restore consumer confidence in European beef.
The European Union's executive panel suggested...
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Getting soaked with ice cold water for charity is in vogue. The movement has taken off in Boston over the past 10 days, since friends and family of Pete Frates started it to raise awareness about Lou Gehrig's disease. (Aug. 8)
Getting soaked with ice cold water for charity is in vogue.
The idea's easy: Take a bucket of ice water, dump it over your head, record it and post it on social media. Then call out _ or challenge _ your friends, strangers, even...
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Tens of thousands of dogs slaughtered after rabies outbreaks
Jining, 6 August 2006
1. Mid pedestrians walking pass dogs kept in cages
2. Close pan dogs in cage
3. Wide of dogs for sale on the street
4. Close of dogs in cage
5. Close tilt-up of boy holding and kissing a little dog
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ITALY: BEEF SCARE WRAP
Italian/Nat
Farmers in Italy have been stopping trucks carrying French beef into the country.
The farmers are blockading three passes between France and Italy in a bid to enforce the Italian government's ban on importing French cattle...
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GERMANY: CONCERNS OVER MAD COW DISEASE AFFECTING HUMANS
German/Nat
Beef consumption has plunged 40 per cent in Germany after concerns over mad cow disease were first raised.
Many German consumers are worried - and already refuse to eat British beef.
The trend is now set to increase...
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Hospital in La Paz uses tango lessons as part of therapy for Parkinson's patients
In the Bolivian capital La Paz, patients with Parkinson's disease and other mobility illnesses are undergoing an unusual therapy to improve their balance, coordination and posture - dancing the tango.
For the past eight months, around a...
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Patient drug trials for a possible Alzheimer's treatment
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4035387LEAD IN: Hundreds of clinical trials are being held around the world to discover a successful treatment for Alzheimer's disease.This week's UK's Dementia Awareness Week is urging more patients...
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Man who inspired ice bucket challenge dies at 34
Pete Frates, a former US college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped inspire the "ice bucket challenge" that has raised more than $200 million worldwide, died on Monday, aged 34.