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The latest case, in a man from the same family as another patient, brings the worldwide number of confirmed infections with the new virus - known as novel coronavirus, or NCoV - to 11. Of those, five have died. Most of the infected lived or had recently been in the Middle East. Three have been diagnosed in Britain. NCoV was identified when the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an international alert in September 2012 saying a virus previously unknown in humans had infected a Qatari man who had recently been in Saudi Arabia. The virus belongs to the same family as SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - a coronavirus that emerged in China in 2002 and killed about a tenth of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide. Symptoms common to both viruses include severe respiratory illness, fever, coughing and breathing difficulties.
— New SARS-like virus shows person-to-person transmission | Reuters
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The World Health Organization is keeping a close eye on a disease outbreak in Saudi Arabia caused by a virus in the same family as the one that caused SARS. The new coronavirus reportedly causes severe pneumonia and kidney failure.
— Outbreak of new coronavirus - same family as SARS - has WHO on alert | CTV News
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Using World Health Organization standards of measurement, 31.5 per cent of five- to 17-year-olds — an estimated 1.6 million Canadians — were classified as overweight (19.8 per cent) or obese (11.7 per cent) from 2009 to 2011. Among children aged five to 11, the percentage of obese boys (19.5 per cent) was more than three times that of obese girls (6.3 per cent), the agency said. (via 31% of Canadian kids are overweight or obese - Health - CBC News) Only yesterday, a new study came out linking exposure to BPA to higher risk of child obesity. However the new study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests “ubiquitous” exposure to BPA may be linked to obesity in white children. The researchers studied 2,838 children from the ages of six to 19, between 2003 to 2008, and found that the higher the concentration of BPA in their urine, the more likely they were to be obese. The participants were divided into four groups depending on their level of urinary BPA. Those in the lowest group had a 10.3 per cent prevalence of obesity, while those in the group with the highest level had a 22.3 per cent prevalence of obesity. Interestingly, the study points out that when the results were broken down by ethnicity, it became clear that the BPA-obesity trend was only present in the white children and adolescents in the study. In children from other ethnicities there was no clear relationship between BPA levels and obesity. This is also what Programmed to be Fat, shown in August on CBC claimed.

Using World Health Organization standards of measurement, 31.5 per cent of five- to 17-year-olds — an estimated 1.6 million Canadians — were classified as overweight (19.8 per cent) or obese (11.7 per cent) from 2009 to 2011. Among children aged five to 11, the percentage of obese boys (19.5 per cent) was more than three times that of obese girls (6.3 per cent), the agency said. (via 31% of Canadian kids are overweight or obese - Health - CBC News)

Only yesterday, a new study came out linking exposure to BPA to higher risk of child obesity.

However the new study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests “ubiquitous” exposure to BPA may be linked to obesity in white children.

  • The researchers studied 2,838 children from the ages of six to 19, between 2003 to 2008, and found that the higher the concentration of BPA in their urine, the more likely they were to be obese.
  • The participants were divided into four groups depending on their level of urinary BPA. Those in the lowest group had a 10.3 per cent prevalence of obesity, while those in the group with the highest level had a 22.3 per cent prevalence of obesity.
  • Interestingly, the study points out that when the results were broken down by ethnicity, it became clear that the BPA-obesity trend was only present in the white children and adolescents in the study. In children from other ethnicities there was no clear relationship between BPA levels and obesity.
This is also what Programmed to be Fat, shown in August on CBC claimed.
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