High incidence of HCV in US cities

Infection rates increased hepatitis C virus (HCV), by more than three times in four states caught in Alobalach Mountains region between 2006 and 2012, due to drug abuse by injection, especially in rural areas, according to what he said, health officials in the United States, Thursday.

According to a report, issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National data indicate the increasing infection Hepatitis rates (C), and concentrated injuries among people under thirty years of age who live in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee and Virginia and West Virginia.

In these four States alone it increased incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) increased by 364 per cent between 2006 and 2012, and about half of these cases (44.8 percent) among persons below the age of thirty.

Among the cases -alta researchers collect data are related to the risk factors Mahtmlh- 73.1 percent reported that they involved persons injecting drug users.

And it warned of centers that despite the fact that HIV infection rates are low at the moment in these four States, the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) raise concerns about the incidence of HIV infection, which is also transmitted through needles contaminated with the blood of an infected syringe.

She said that these results highlight the need to test to make sure the body free of infection of hepatitis C virus (HCV), with treatment and care of drug users in designated centers.

She added that centers around three million Americans are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), while infected by many without unwittingly, and cause chronic infections of the liver injury damaged or failure, cancer and even death.

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) viral infectious disease of the liver, is usually spread through the blood to the body enter.

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Hurricane hit Texas, Colorado and Kansas

Hit by a wave of hurricanes, Saturday, several areas in the United States, including Texas, where it was reported the death of a person, and the destruction of at least two houses in the north of the state.

He said the local emergency management coordinator in Eastland County, Rex Fields, the victim fell as a result of the hurricane, which occurred about 8 kilometers south of the town of Cisco.

He pointed out that at least two houses were destroyed and other homes were damaged in the region, just 210 kilometers east of Dallas, while floodwaters inundated roads partially.

In eastern Colorado, he said meteorologist at the National Authority, Jim Kalina, three hurricanes that reached the rural areas in the eastern plains, Saturday.

It hits as hurricanes western Kansas and areas along the border with the states of Oklahoma and Texas, without immediate reports of casualties.

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Gunman kills two policemen in Mississippi

Anonymous bullets fired on two police officers, Saturday, in Mississippi in the United States, which led to the killed, according to several sources it said.

The Clarion-Ledger newspaper that the two police officers were killed Saturday in a Hatesberg, and taken to the hospital where their deaths were confirmed, without detailing the attack.

In the wake of the news of the killing spread elements, urged the mayor Hatesberg, Johnny Dupree, citizens to stay in their homes, the center searches for the shooter.

Hatesberg police and expressed the belief that the suspect stole a police car after the shooting, before they found the vehicle in a remote area.

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Fire suppression adapter US nuclear plant

The company which runs the "Indian Point" nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, US District said, he was putting out a fire at the station Saturday, without causing damage to the nuclear reactor.

He said company spokesman for "Reuters", that the fire, which broke out about the sixth pm EDT, led to the closure of Unit 3 reactor plant, but Unit 2 continued to operate, pointing out that there is no information on the cause of the failure.

He explained that the water spray system and individuals at the site put out the fire in the converter, note that the transformers, about 100 meters from the reactor.

The company said the director of "Twitter" that "there is no danger to the safety of people at any time."

On the other hand, a spokesman for the New York Police reported that several emergency communications with reported hearing the sound of a huge sound at the station, which is located 65 km north of New York City, pointing out that he had not been reported casualties at the site.

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Washington: "Pyongyang's missile" frustrated dialogue

A senior US official said on Saturday that the United States was to have flexibility on the formula for a serious dialogue with North Korea on nuclear disarmament, but it seems that the new missile test represented a frustrating response to Washington.

The news agency "Associated Press" the official, who asked not to be named, as saying that Washington had the flexibility to menial "serious dialogue" on nuclear disarmament in North Korea.

The statements come after North Korea test-fired a new ballistic missile from a submarine.

In a first reaction to the experiment, the State Department official said, "We call on North Korea because the move away from any actions that inflame tensions in the region and focus instead on taking concrete actions to fulfill its obligations toward the international obligations."

The official pointed out that ever using ballistic missile technology violates several UN Security Council resolutions.

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Smuggling boy from the Ivory Coast to Spain in a suitcase

Boy were smuggling in the eighth to Spain from Morocco within travel bag, according to Spanish police he said.
The boy was found inside a suitcase carried by a woman in the nineteenth was to enter Ceuta, a subsidiary of Spain area close to Morocco on Thursday.
When the police opened the bag, they found the boy in "horrible case," according to a police spokesman told AFP said.
The Spanish newspaper El Pais that women are not close to the boy, and his father gave her the money to carry pouch.
The boy's father lives in the Canary Islands and was hoping to heal reunited with his son, the newspaper said.
The Spanish news agency that the boy's father traveled to the Ivory Coast received by after that he moved to the island of Gran Canaria in 2013.
The agency said the boy's father to pay the Moroccan carrier bag for the transfer of the bag.
The police spokesman said the agency "seemed hesitant as if they do not want to cross the border."
"In the beginning we thought that the bag may be filled with drugs, but we discovered that the person inside.
The boy's father across the border after an hour and a half from the arrival of his son, and was detained by border guards.
The fall of Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by Morocco with each of them on three sides.
Madrid says they were an integral part of Spain and manages their borders part, but Morocco says they crossed her.

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North Korea "successfully tested a missile fired by a submarine"

North Korea said it successfully conducted a test on a missile fired by a submarine, which is regarded as important to enhance its arsenal if confirmed the validity of this news.
It showed images broadcast by state media, leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, which monitors the submarine fired a missile from underwater.
Analysts say North Korea has several nuclear warheads, but this development will be interesting because the missiles launched by submarines difficult to monitor.
It could not confirm news "submarine test" from independent sources.
She described the state media that the missile launched from the submarine that stems accompanied by "flaming emissions", but gave no date or place of the test.
The leader of North Korea that his country has a "strategic weapon of world-class capable of beating any water belonging to the sovereignty and dignity violated by hostile forces and then destroy it completely eliminates."
If confirmed, this test, it would be a violation of sanctions imposed by the United Nations on North Korea on the non-use of ballistic missile technology.

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