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Anthrax scares mount across UK

The rash of anthrax scares around the world intensified in Britain today with incidents (1)___________ by suspect mail across the country. In London, a suspect package was removed from the London Stock Exchange and 12 people from the building were taken to hospital "as a(2) ____________ measure", police said. Rash = sudden increase

Police were also investigating a (3)____________ package sent to a building where Nick Raynsford, a government minister, was meeting local government leaders.

In Liverpool, the central post office was closed when postal workers saw white powder (4)_____________ from mail. Workers at the Royal Mail sorting office were (5)_____________ and held in isolation for more than five hours as firemen wearing protective suits moved in to collect a sample of the powder. Central Liverpool was sealed off as the scare (6)____________.

And in Fife, police said that a number of packages "(7)_____________ to contain anthrax" were sent to various addresses, including St Andrews University where Prince William is a student. Officers there said the incidents were(8) _____________. The pattern was(9) ____________ overseas. In Jerusalem, newspaper offices were evacuated after staff opened a letter containing a white powder.

The German government said that tests(10) _____________ a white powder found in the mailroom of the chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, revealed no(11) ____________ of anthrax or any other harmful agent. Meanwhile, three people tested in Britain for anthrax,(12) _____________ returning from American buildings infected with the disease, were given a clean bill of health after medical screening.

As the number of US cases of anthrax (13) _____________, police here issued a warning that people should be on their guard for possible biological agents. "(14) ______________ people are suspicious of anything they have received in the mail or by hand they should contact police," Scotland Yard said.

Panic has (15) ______________ through the US after a man died of anthrax in Florida and a female employee of the NBC network in New York was infected by a letter carrying the disease. The son of an ABC News producer was (16) _____________ with anthrax and a letter sent to the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, tested positive for anthrax spores.

Three people there have so far been confirmed as suffering from the disease. A (17) ____________ 11 have been confirmed as having been exposed to anthrax. However, authorities in the US today revealed that there had been (18) ______________ 2,000 anthrax alerts(19) ______________ the terror attacks and a (20) ____________ on hoaxers had been launched. There have been anthrax(21) _____________ in France, Australia, Canada and Mexico in the past few days. British security services (22) _____________ that there is no "specific threat" of biological or chemical attacks in Britain.

However, the government's chief medical officer, Professor Liam Donaldson, said that the government had (23) _____________ the "necessary stores" of antibiotics and other equipment necessary to deal with

any attack.

1- ``Apart from smoking, very ___________ established causes of cancer have been associated _________ an attributable risk of this magnitude,'' he told the ECCO 11 cancer meeting in the Portuguese capital.

2-``The critical question concerns the extent _________ which H. pylori precancerous changes will regress or be prevented _________ progressing after the eradication of H. pylori from the stomach,'' he added

3-Along ___________ the bacterium, genes also play a role in the development of the illness and could be the key to why some people with the infection develop stomach cancer and ___________ don't.

4-Mbeki has also blocked the use of key antiretroviral drugs in the public health system, including those that

can reduce the risk of mothers passing _________ the disease to their newborns, _________ cost and safety

grounds.

5-The report said about 195,000 people would die _________ AIDS-related diseases this year, compared to

65,000 to 80,000 deaths __________ a result of accidents and violence.

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