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Is maintenance failure endemic at Southwest Airlines?
2015-03-02 11:59:01| Airlines - Topix.net
Last week, Southwest Airlines grounded 128 Boeing 737's, about 19% of their entire fleet. The planes were grounded because Southwest, according to the required maintenance schedule, failed to inspect their backup hydraulic systems, used to control the planes' rudders if the main systems fail.
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Endless Ebola Endemic? That's The 'Risk We Face Now,' CDC Says
2014-12-15 21:52:21| Biotech - Topix.net
Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks with Doctors Without Borders staff during a visit in August to an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. Speed.
Without Funding, Haiti Faces Endemic Cholera
2013-07-26 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Lack of financing for a 10-year eradication plan means that cholera will likely be endemic to Haiti for years to come. Cholera spreads via contaminated food, water and fecal matter. One of the essential parts of the government's 2.2-billion-dollar National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in Haiti is financing for sanitation systems nationwide."Haiti is the only country in the entire world whose sanitation coverage decreased in the last decade." -- Dr. Rishi Rattan of Physicians for Haiti...
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