The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt 1
Day: August 13, 2009
Video: Gold, impunity, violence in El Salvador
Assassination of anti-mining resistance leader Marcelo Rivera part of terror campaign against activists
A 37-year-old teacher, community center founder, and anti-mining activist is found tortured and assassinated in Northern El Salvador. Authorities, despite all evidence to the contrary, attribute the death to common gang violence. In the following weeks, other critics of mining are victims of death threats, attempted kidnappings and shootings. Communities plunged into fear not seen since the Civil War of the 1980s place the blame on the presence of Pacific Rim, a Canadian gold mining company.
Three stories from 2005: Japan Linked Tamiflu to Sudden Deaths in Children
13 November 2005
Tokyo – Japan’s health ministry says it plans to reissue a warning of dangerous behavioral side effects linked to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu. This comes amid reports that several children in Japan died after taking the medication. Governments around the world are stockpiling the medicine amid growing fears of a possible human pandemic of avian influenza.
Japan’s health ministry says it is looking into reports of a number of sudden deaths of young people who had taken prescribed dosages of Tamiflu.
The ministry confirms that it has concluded that the death of one boy was the result of side effects from the drug. The ministry says it has found 64 cases of psychological disorders linked to the drug in the past four years.
Dr. Rokuro Hama, head of the Japan Institute of Pharmaco-Vigilance, says he has investigated eight suspicious deaths of children aged between two and 17 over the past three years, which he thinks are linked to Tamiflu. He reported his findings Saturday at a meeting of the Japan Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Hama said Sunday that Tamiflu appears to be similar to other powerful drugs that can cause behavioral changes.
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