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Public health success story: India reaches polio-free milestone
Posted by Liz Borkowski on March 2, 2012
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The World Health Organization has confirmed that India has gone a whole year without having a new case of polio — a major milestone in a country that was once plagued by the crippling disease. BBC’s Fergus Walsh explains that the country won’t formally be regarded as polio-free until it’s gone another two years without…
Workers at Hershey’s plant feel vindicated by OSHA’s $283,000 penalty to Exel
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on March 1, 2012 Federal OSHA proposed a $283,000 penalty against an employer responsible for staffing a Hershey’s chocolate packaging facilty in Palmyra, Pennsylvania for willfully violating workplace safety regulations. The agency’s action followed a formal complaint lodged by workers at the plant, many of whom were foreign students employed under the State Department’s J-1 visa program. A few…