February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Bacteria":
Science & Technology: 3 Jan 12
A prematurely born baby, being treated in a Swedish hospital, died after being subjected to multi resistant bacteria, according to a new report.
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Science & Technology: 30 Dec 11
Floods, infectious disease, forest fires, and cyberattacks are among several threats to Sweden identified by the country's Civil Contingencies Authority.
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Science & Technology: 22 Dec 11
Swedish nursing home operator Carema Care urged staff to compete with one another to see how much they could save on elderly residents' food, diapers, and protective gloves, according to employees.
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Science & Technology: 25 Oct 11
Swedish researchers have discovered a new tick-borne illness that can cause blood clots in the legs and lungs, with three cases having been reported in Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 21 Oct 11
Sweden's communicable diseases agency has seen a recent spike in reported food poisonings in Stockholm thought to be caused by tuna.
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Lifestyle: 28 Sep 11
Have you considered skipping a holiday in fear of what may become of your sourdough? Never fear, you could always check it in to Stockholm's sourdough hotel while you’re away, Lina Sennevall reports.
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Business & Money: 27 Jul 11
In the wake of recent cocaine scandals, Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt has left the board of a Swedish natural remedies and supplements company.
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Lifestyle: 11 Jul 11
While Sweden is not exactly known around the world as a destination of culinary excellence, there are some juicy Nordic morsels that are sure to leave would-be exiles pining for a taste of home, food blogger Maia Brindley Nilsson discovers.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jul 11
Swedish researchers have uncovered a strain of gonorrhea bacteria that is resistant to treatment with antibiotics.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jul 11
The centre for communicable diseases in Skåne, in southern Sweden, is now giving up attempts to find the source behind the first Swedish infection of the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) bacteria.
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Science & Technology: 29 Jun 11
Swedish grocers stepped up a nationwide recall of raw sprouts after new reports that a Swedish man had been infected with the same deadly E. coli bacteria strain that has claimed dozens of lives across Europe.
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Science & Technology: 28 Jun 11
For the first time, a Swede with no connections to Germany has been infected with the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria that has claimed dozens of lives across Europe, Swedish health authorities reported on Tuesday.
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Science & Technology: 22 Jun 11
Swedish health officials have neglected to issue warnings about contaminated cocaine circulating in the country, despite evidence that cocaine in Sweden may contain an antibacterial agent primarily used to rid animals of parasites.
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Science & Technology: 16 Jun 11
Around 50 dog owners and several dogs are believed to have been infected with the enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria following a dog show in eastern Sweden.
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National: 16 Jun 11
Two Swedes have been confirmed as infected by the multi-resistant bacteria MRSP, marking the first time such infections have been detected in humans in Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jun 11
Swedish scientists are concerned that it may be some time before the properties of the bacteria causing the current EHEC infection in Europe are fully understood.
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National: 3 Jun 11
More Swedes have been infected with the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria which some health experts believe comes from an entirely new strain of the bacteria.
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Science & Technology: 31 May 11
A Swedish woman has died after being infected with the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria stemming from an E. coli outbreak which originated in northern Germany.
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Science & Technology: 30 May 11
A Swedish woman is reported to be in critical condition after being infected with the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria stemming from an E. coli outbreak which originated in northern Germany.
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National: 27 May 11
Swedish food authorities on Friday urged grocers to trace the origins of their cucumbers, as more Swedes reported suffering from symptoms of illnesses related to a the E. coli bacteria traced to Spanish cucumbers.
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Science & Technology: 26 May 11
Ten Swedes are severly ill and many more are suffering other effects from a virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria following the recent outbreak of the disease in Northern Germany.
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Science & Technology: 29 Apr 11
Swedish scientists have developed new highly sensitive equipment that may have a huge impact on tracking the spread of HIV and detecting signs of bio terrorism and water contamination.
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Society: 17 Apr 11
There may be less than attractive ingredients hiding in your candy-packed Easter egg this year, according to Swedish consumer advice newspaper Råd och Rön.
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Society: 20 Jan 11
A woman with syphilis sold sex in Gothenburg through most of the autumn of 2010 without informing clients that she had the disease, according to a news report.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jan 11
A county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jan 11
Sweden's infectious disease control agency has determined that India is the worst country for stomach ailments for Swedish travellers.
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Science & Technology: 22 Dec 10
A team of Swedish scientists are currently examining specimens of stomach bacteria from Ötzi the Iceman, who lived about 5,300 years ago.
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Science & Technology: 8 Nov 10
The Swedish medical community is increasingly turning to what many patients consider a rather unappealing antidote for battling resistant 'superbug' bacteria.
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Business & Money: 22 Sep 10
The shipping industry has been slammed in a World Wildlife Fund report which showed that more than half of the cruises ships plying the Baltic dump their sewage directly into the sea, despite a pledge to clean up its act.
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Lifestyle: 25 Aug 10
It has been banned by airlines as an offensive weapon, its smells like a gas leak and it is Swedish schoolchildren's favourite way to cause classroom chaos. Yet thousands of Swedes regard it as a culinary delicacy. Emy Gelb reaches for a clothespin and takes a look at the famous Swedish "rotten herring" - surströmming.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jul 10
The first signs of this year's cyanobacteria - also known as blue-green algae - blooms are now visible in the Baltic Sea on satellite images.
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Society: 1 Jun 10
The number of cases of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in Sweden rose sharply last year, a worrying development, researchers say.
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National: 31 May 10
In a test of shopping baskets from grocery stores in Bollnäs in central Sweden, none of them passed standards for safe food handling.
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Science & Technology: 7 May 10
A Swedish-led team of scientists has drafted a genome sequence for the Neanderthal and believes its results show that the extinct 'great apes' interbred with humans.
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National: 27 Apr 10
The European Parliament's environment committee has backed a proposal drafted by Swedish MEP Åsa Westlund calling for an EU-wide ban on the controversial 'meat glue' product thrombin.
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Science & Technology: 22 Mar 10
American microbiologist Rita Colwell has won the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize for her pioneering work in the battle against cholera.
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Science & Technology: 2 Mar 10
A new bacteria thought to be a cause of meningitis has been found in ticks, new Swedish research shows.
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Science & Technology: 30 Dec 09
New research at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg in western Sweden might be an important step towards creating a vaccine against ulcers and stomach cancer.
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Business & Money: 24 Dec 09
On Wednesday, AstraZeneca announced a $350 million deal for the purchase of French antibiotics manufacturer Novexel. The acquisition will boost the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals giant's portfolio of anti-infection drugs.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 09
It's not really the government that runs Sweden. Nor is it the police, the Royal Family or the largely interchangeable bearded dudes from Abba. It is the people who print the little best-before dates on all food and drink items, writes Paddy Kelly.
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Science & Technology: 3 Dec 09
Shares in a Swedish biotech firm soared on Wednesday on news that the company had inked a distribution deal in China for its tampons “bathed in human lactic acid bacteria”.
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National: 25 Sep 09
Meat from Swedish stockpiles dating back to the Cold War has been sold to Poland to be served in restaurants.
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Science & Technology: 21 Sep 09
Another child has been infected with a strain of multiresistant bacteria at the same hospital in central Sweden where three newborns died from similar infections in August.
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Science & Technology: 3 Sep 09
A baby that doctors knew was infected with a strain of multiresistant bacteria was kept in a ward at the Västerås hospital with other premature babies for almost an entire day. One of the other babies was infected and later died.
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Science & Technology: 1 Sep 09
Three newborn children have died at Västerås hospital in central Sweden following infection with a strain of multiresistant bacteria.
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Science & Technology: 29 Jul 09
Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska University hospital has been criticized by health authorities after three newborns died from infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria.
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Society: 12 Jun 09
The water at eight Swedish bathing areas failed to meet European water quality standards last year, according an annual report from the European Commission.
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Science & Technology: 26 May 09
Patients at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna were housed last summer in the same department as those with the resistant MRSA bacteria, due to overcrowding.
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Science & Technology: 15 Apr 09
A 50-year-old man from Karlskrona in southern Sweden has died from parrot fever.
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Science & Technology: 11 Mar 09
Figure-hugging, labelled training clothes have long been de rigueur in the sports clubs of Sweden. Some even promise to eliminate the smell of sweat but, as a new report shows, at a cost to the environment.
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Science & Technology: 3 Mar 09
Tamiflu, the medication used to combat influenza, is useless in large parts of the world. Sweden has built up large stocks of the drug as part of its strategy to tackle a bird flu epidemic.
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Science & Technology: 13 Dec 08
A farm in the vicinity of Varberg in western Sweden has been hit by an outbreak of anthrax. Thirteen cattle have so far died from the disease which has not been seen in Sweden since 1981 and is harmful to humans.
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National: 25 Oct 08
An increasing number of Swedes suffer food poisoning after eating imported fruit and vegetables. The National Food Administration reveals that waste water used to grow the produce is to blame.
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National: 27 Sep 08
The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) has offered roses to those responsible for poisoning members of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Party leader Mona Sahlin described the offer as "terrible."
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National: 26 Sep 08
Sweden’s security service Säpo is investigating possible sabotage following an incident which left 140 people at the headquarters of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv) suffering from dysentery.
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National: 24 Jul 08
Forecasters predict several more days of warm summer weather in Sweden, but warn that high temperatures may also cause widespread blooming of poisonous blue-green algae in coastal waters.
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Science & Technology: 8 Jul 08
A two-year-old girl from Stockholm has died after becoming infected with the EHEC bacteria.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jun 08
The World Wildlife Fund has cautioned that the spread of so-called marine dead zones could cause the Baltic Sea ecosystem to collapse.
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National: 8 Jun 08
A Swedish diver who spent two nights marooned on an Indonesian island has told how she had to fight off an aggressive komodo dragon.
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National: 8 Jun 08
Swedish diver Helena Nevalainen has spoken out about her traumatic experience after she and four other European divers went missing in in treacherous waters east of Bali.
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National: 6 Apr 08
Supermarket chain Ica has recalled 16 tonnes of beef mince following tests that showed high levels of bacteria.
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Lifestyle: 27 Feb 08
With shipping being touted as a solution to reducing the oversized carbon footprints of air travel and freight, Jonathan Ward looks at a Swedish company trying to ensure that the shipping industry's environmental credentials get a little greener.
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Society: 11 Jan 08
Preventable deaths are more common in Swedish hospitals than in a number of other comparable industrial countries.
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National: 18 Dec 07
Twelve people in the Gävle region have contracted salmonella poisoning after eating infected eggs imported from Poland.
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National: 18 Oct 07
Hygiene in one in three Swedish slaughterhouses is unacceptable, according to an official report on prevalence of E.coli bacteria in the meat industry.
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Society: 30 Sep 07
Doctors in Sweden are worried about the rising number of incidences of a new 'superbug'. The ESBL bacteria is spreading faster than better-known superbug MRSA.
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Science & Technology: 19 Sep 07
A Lund-based professor has found that pain killing medicine is twice as effective when washed down with water rather than fruit drinks.
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Science & Technology: 10 Aug 07
The scourge of Sweden's Baltic bathers is back. A slimy blanket of blue-green algae has drifted north from the waters around the island of Gotland and has now reached the Stockholm archipelago.
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Science & Technology: 30 May 07
Swedish veterinarians have warned of an impending public health problem as a number of dogs are found to be infected with MRSA, the superbug generally associated with hospital environments.
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National: 22 Dec 06
Intestinal bacteria in the rice pudding, spore-forming bacteria in the jam and staphylococcus in the spring rolls: the uninvited microscopic guests in Stockholm's Christmas menus.
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National: 13 Nov 06
Minced beef sold by 49 ICA supermarkets around Sweden has been recalled after salmonella was found in a sample. The meat had come from Ireland and been packed in Västerås.
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Society: 12 Nov 06
More than 90 guests were infected with salmonella after their visit to a popular restaurant in central Stockholm. It is the largest outbreak of the bacteria in Sweden for over three years.
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Society: 26 Sep 06
They possibly hold the key to helping the world deal with climate change, and to curing diseases such as cancer. But today's young researchers don't just know their science - they can talk the talk too.
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Science & Technology: 8 Sep 06
The number of new cases of chlamydia in Sweden has gone down for the first time since the nineties, but 80 people are still being infected with the clap every day.
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National: 25 Aug 06
Rot that threatens to destroy Sweden's 17th century warship Vasa, which sank in a Stockholm port just minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628, has been slowed, says the museum housing it.
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Science & Technology: 3 Aug 06
A third case of cholera has been diagnosed among people who have been swimming in Blekinge over the past few days. People with open sores should not swim, say experts.
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Science & Technology: 6 Jul 06
Cases of tick-borne diseases are on the up, but there are no plans to offer free jabs against encephalitis, the government says. At 900 kronor a shot, it would be too expensive.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jul 06
The summer's first blue-green algae has started blooming in the Baltic, just north of Gotland. But scientists say that the sea is unlikely to turn into a soupy mush, as happened last year.
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National: 17 May 06
There have been two unauthorised attempts to acquire anthrax bacteria from Gothenburg University recently, according to a report from the Swedish Defence Research Agency.
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Science & Technology: 4 May 06
A teenage girl in Uppsala has undergone a series of amputations after having contracted a meningococcal infection.
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Science & Technology: 13 Apr 06
A 17-year old girl has died of suspected meningitis in the Swedish town of Västerås. Doctors in the town are warning young people in the town not to kiss or share cigarettes or bottles.
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Science & Technology: 23 Mar 06
Six people have been taken ill with Pontiac Fever, which is caused by the same bacteria that lead to Legionnaires Disease, after having bathed in a spa in the Kronoberg region.
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Society: 13 Mar 06
The adoptive parents of a three-year old boy who died in January should be jailed for over a year, say prosecutors. But a doctor gives evidence in the parents' favour.
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National: 20 Feb 06
Never expect any gratitude - that's the lesson learned by a Swedish man whose small act of kindness in a restaurant left him suspected of trying to spread a deadly disease.
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Science & Technology: 7 Jan 06
A new stomach bug, which primarily spreads via infected pork, has increased by 45% in Sweden in the last four years. Small children are thought to be particularly at risk.
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Smörgåsbord: 10 Dec 05
The great and the good - and the jolly clever - gather in Stockholm for the academic world's Oscars. The winners are ten million kronor better off - and they might even get to meet Princess Madeleine.
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National: 3 Oct 05
This year's Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren, both from Australia, for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
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Science & Technology: 17 Sep 05
The source of an e-coli outbreak affecting 110 people in western Sweden has been traced to a vegetable grower. The crops had been watered using a nearby stream.
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Science & Technology: 26 Aug 05
Over 100 people with links to a pre-school in Bromma have now been tested for tuberculosis. Nine children are confirmed as being infected, a figure which is expected to rise. And in Halland, 50 children will be tested after an 8 year old boy catches the disease.
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Science & Technology: 24 Aug 05
More than 50 kids, staff and parents are being tested after a worker at a children's nursery was diagnosed as having the potentially deadly TB virus.
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Science & Technology: 23 Aug 05
A team of researchers at the Karolinska Institute have hit upon a new way of identifying previously unknown viruses. And for starters they've spotted one which causes respiratory infections in children.
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National: 16 Aug 05
It ruined the swimming and the view for visitors to Sweden's east coast this summer but now scientists have an idea of how to fight the Baltic sea's blooming algae. But it'll cost a tidy billion kronor.
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Science & Technology: 18 Jul 05
A sexually transmitted disease that has already infected hundreds of people in the rest of Europe has found its way to Stockholm. Three men have so far been diagnosed with the disease, which is related to chlamydia.
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Science & Technology: 13 Jul 05
Swedish supermarket chain ICA has recalled eight tons of Danish pork loin from stores across the country after a random test revealed traces of salmonella bacteria .
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National: 12 Jul 05
Sweden's been basking for the last two weeks in gloriously hot and sunny weather. Fantastic! Well, as always seems to be the case, it comes at a price: blankets of toxic algae in the east, forest fires in the west and withered crops in the south.
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National: 6 Jul 05
Sweden's coast is being invaded by blue-green algae, which can cause stomach sickness and headaches for swimmers. This year the algae is blooming earlier and in greater quantities than in previous years.
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National: 11 May 05
An unidentified powder in a letter sent to the Danish embassy in Stockholm was not anthrax or any other dangerous substance, Swedish police said on Wednesday, a day after the embassy was evacuated.
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National: 23 Feb 05
Swedish survivors of the tsunami disaster are facing another danger, according to this week's papers. At least four people who were struck by the massive waves on Boxing Day have returned home with a potentially deadly fungal infection.
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Smörgåsbord: 9 Dec 04
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Smörgåsbord: 23 Sep 04
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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