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Asiana Airlines fined $500,000 for failing to help families after July crash
By Mike M. Ahlers, CNN
updated 5:47 PM EST, Tue February 25, 2014
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Asiana Airlines is fined $500,000 for inadequate aid to crash victims' familes
- It is the first time the DOT has issued a fine under a "family assistance plan" law
- Asiana failed to widely publicize any telephone number for family members, the DOT said
The Korean airline was slow to publicize a phone number for families, took two full days to successfully contact the families of three-quarters of the passengers and did not contact families of several passengers until five days following the crash, authorities said.
The half-million-dollar penalty is the first time the DOT has issued a fine under a 1997 law that requires airlines to adopt and adhere to a "family assistance plan" for major accidents.
Three of the 291 passengers were killed and scores were injured when the Boeing 777 struck the seawall at San Francisco International Airport and tumbled down the runway.
"In the very rare event of a crash, airlines have a responsibility to provide their full support to help passengers and their families by following all the elements of their family assistance plans," Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement. "The last thing families and passengers should have to worry about at such a stressful time is how to get information from their carrier."
In the DOT order, Asiana said its job was complicated by the limited number of workers at San Francisco's airport and other circumstances. Injured passengers were sent to 13 different area hospitals, and there was no list prepared at the time to help the airline track passengers.
Hospitals also were reluctant to release information to the airline due to privacy laws, the airline said.
Under the Foreign Air Carrier Family Support Act of 1997, foreign air carriers assure the Department of Transportation and the National Transportation Safety Board that they will adhere to a "family assistance plan" in the event of aircraft accidents resulting in a major loss of life.
Among other things, airlines must publicize and staff a toll-free telephone number to take calls from families, notify families as soon as practical and commit sufficient resources to carry out the family assistance plan.
According to the DOT, Asiana failed to widely publicize any telephone number for family members of those on board, and the only number generally available to the public that family members could call was Asiana's toll-free reservations line.
Asiana publicized a phone number established by another entity 18 hours and 32 minutes after the crash, the DOT said.
Locating this phone number on Asiana's website required significant effort, the DOT said, and the reservations line did not include a separate menu option for calls related to the crash, requiring callers to navigate through cumbersome automated menus.
Asiana also took two days to send a sufficient number of trained personnel to San Francisco, and initially lacked an adequate number of staff able to communicate in the languages spoken by the flight's passengers, the DOT said.
According to the DOT, $400,000 of the penalty is due within 30 days. Up to $100,000 will be spent on multiple industry-wide conferences and training sessions to provide others with lessons learned from the Asiana crash aftermath.
'El Chapo' Guzman: How the world's most wanted drug lord was finally busted
By Catherine E. Shoichet. Evan Perez and Brian Todd, CNN
updated 6:03 PM EST, Mon February 24, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/world/americas/el-chapo-capture/index.html?hpt=us_t4#
Details emerge in drug lord's capture
Read about the hunt for "El Chapo" Guzman in Spanish at CNNMexico.com
(CNN) -- Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmanhad an assault rifle handy when authorities raided his beachside hideaway over the weekend, but the world's most wanted drug lord never opened fire.
That's because marines used infrared and body-heat scanners to pinpoint the locations of everyone inside the condo and make sure they were asleep, a Mexican official told CNN.
Saturday's pre-dawn operation that captured Guzman in the Mexican Pacific resort town of Mazatlan marked a dramatic twist in a case that has long captivated the country and frustrated investigators on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The notorious Sinaloa cartel leader's nickname, which means "Shorty," belies the tall and near-mythic status Guzman achieved in recent years for his ability to elude capture by using bribes, safe houses and an army of cartel helpers.
500 bullet casings at the scene.
Last year, authorities arrested Guzman's father-in-law in Sonora, Mexico, charging him with drug-related crimes.
But not all of the focus on Guzman's family has been tied to organized crime.
In September 2011, word eked out that Guzman's beauty-queen wife, Emma Coronel -- a citizen of both the United States and Mexico -- had given birth to twin girls at a hospital in Lancaster, California.
About a year later, authorities arrested Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar, one of El Chapo's daughters, at a border crossing in San Ysidro, California. She was deported back to Mexico several months later.
Her attorneys said she was pregnant and had been coming to the United States to have a baby.
By Catherine E. Shoichet. Evan Perez and Brian Todd, CNN
updated 6:03 PM EST, Mon February 24, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/world/americas/el-chapo-capture/index.html?hpt=us_t4#
Details emerge in drug lord's capture
Read about the hunt for "El Chapo" Guzman in Spanish at CNNMexico.com
(CNN) -- Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmanhad an assault rifle handy when authorities raided his beachside hideaway over the weekend, but the world's most wanted drug lord never opened fire.
That's because marines used infrared and body-heat scanners to pinpoint the locations of everyone inside the condo and make sure they were asleep, a Mexican official told CNN.
Saturday's pre-dawn operation that captured Guzman in the Mexican Pacific resort town of Mazatlan marked a dramatic twist in a case that has long captivated the country and frustrated investigators on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The notorious Sinaloa cartel leader's nickname, which means "Shorty," belies the tall and near-mythic status Guzman achieved in recent years for his ability to elude capture by using bribes, safe houses and an army of cartel helpers.
500 bullet casings at the scene.
Last year, authorities arrested Guzman's father-in-law in Sonora, Mexico, charging him with drug-related crimes.
But not all of the focus on Guzman's family has been tied to organized crime.
In September 2011, word eked out that Guzman's beauty-queen wife, Emma Coronel -- a citizen of both the United States and Mexico -- had given birth to twin girls at a hospital in Lancaster, California.
About a year later, authorities arrested Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar, one of El Chapo's daughters, at a border crossing in San Ysidro, California. She was deported back to Mexico several months later.
Her attorneys said she was pregnant and had been coming to the United States to have a baby.
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4.4 billion-year-old crystal is oldest piece of Earth
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
updated 3:27 PM EST, Tue February 25, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/world/oldest-earth-fragment/index.html?hpt=wo_t2#
Check out the oldest piece of Earth
Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
"This is the oldest and the best dated of all the crystals that have been reported," said John Valley, lead study author and professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This crystal is a translucent red, Valley said, but glows blue when bombarded with electrons. At 400 micrometers long, its biggest dimension is just a tad larger than a house dust mite, or about four human hairs.
The crystal was found in an arid region north of Perth, Australia, in a low range of hills called the Jack Hills, in 2001.
Scientists say the crystal's chemistry -- specifically, the ratio of oxygen isotopes within it -- suggests that the temperatures on Earth 4.4 billion years ago would have supported liquid water, and therefore perhaps life. Two isotopes of an element are considered different if they contain different numbers of neutrons.
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"What we've learned is that the Earth cooled much more quickly that people had thought," Valley said. "The surface formed a crust much more quickly than people thought."
A brief history of Earth
Our planet is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, but the oldest fossils are about 3.5 billion years old. That doesn't necessarily mean that no life existed before that time, but no direct evidence has been found yet.
The first rocks that have been found deposited by water are about 3.8 billion years old, Valley said.
But very little is known about the first 600 million years or so of the planet's history, known as the "Hadean Eon" because it was thought to be "hell-like," Valley said.
The leading theory is that Earth was bombarded by meteors in its early history. It took a big hit from an object the size of Mars about 4.5 billion years ago, leading to the formation of the moon. These impacts vaporized the Earth's crust and formed a super-hot magma ocean.
Evidence including this zircon suggests that within the first 100 million to 200 million years of its existence, our planet cooled enough to make crust. Steam from the atmosphere condensed to make oceans.
"Once you know that there were oceans, it's very reasonable that there would have been life that early" -- even when it was only 200 million years old, Valley said.
How they did the study
Valley and colleagues reported on a different crystal from early Earth in 2001 from the same Jack Hills area. But there had been an open question regarding that crystal and others about how to determine the age.
The standard method of dating such rocks involves looking at the radioactive decay of uranium atoms to lead. But if the lead has moved within the crystal over time, this could lead to a faulty estimate of age. If lead has migrated away from the area of the rock being tested, that could make the rock appear younger than it is, or older if lead has concentrated itself.
In this new study, researchers used a technique called atom-probe tomography, which allows scientists to image single atoms of lead and determine the isotope ratio.
Scientists found that clumps of lead atoms had formed 1 billion years after the zircon crystallized. These clusters are tiny, about 5 to 10 nanometers in diameter.
All that means that the lead atoms hadn't moved enough to thwart scientist's existing methods of determining the crystal's age, Valley said. They determined that age to be 4.4 billion years old.
"Although incredibly laborious, their analytical technique can be applied to not only additional terrestrial zircons but also to zircons from meteorites and lunar samples, to perhaps tease out a detailed thermal history of magmatism and impacts," Samuel Bowring, professor of geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in an accompanying article in Nature Geoscience.
Meanwhile, on Mars
Earth and Mars formed around the same time in the solar system. Just as scientists are analyzing the chemical composition of rocks on Earth to learn about our planet's history, NASA's Curiosity rover is doing the same on Mars.
But one can only do so much via robot. NASA is planning a 2020 rover mission that may be able to collect samples for later delivery to Earth.
There, we may find even more extraordinary gems -- red or otherwise.
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
updated 3:27 PM EST, Tue February 25, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/world/oldest-earth-fragment/index.html?hpt=wo_t2#
Check out the oldest piece of Earth
Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
"This is the oldest and the best dated of all the crystals that have been reported," said John Valley, lead study author and professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This crystal is a translucent red, Valley said, but glows blue when bombarded with electrons. At 400 micrometers long, its biggest dimension is just a tad larger than a house dust mite, or about four human hairs.
The crystal was found in an arid region north of Perth, Australia, in a low range of hills called the Jack Hills, in 2001.
Scientists say the crystal's chemistry -- specifically, the ratio of oxygen isotopes within it -- suggests that the temperatures on Earth 4.4 billion years ago would have supported liquid water, and therefore perhaps life. Two isotopes of an element are considered different if they contain different numbers of neutrons.
Follow CNN Science News
Facebook: CNNScience
Twitter: @CNNLightYears
"What we've learned is that the Earth cooled much more quickly that people had thought," Valley said. "The surface formed a crust much more quickly than people thought."
A brief history of Earth
Our planet is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, but the oldest fossils are about 3.5 billion years old. That doesn't necessarily mean that no life existed before that time, but no direct evidence has been found yet.
The first rocks that have been found deposited by water are about 3.8 billion years old, Valley said.
But very little is known about the first 600 million years or so of the planet's history, known as the "Hadean Eon" because it was thought to be "hell-like," Valley said.
The leading theory is that Earth was bombarded by meteors in its early history. It took a big hit from an object the size of Mars about 4.5 billion years ago, leading to the formation of the moon. These impacts vaporized the Earth's crust and formed a super-hot magma ocean.
Evidence including this zircon suggests that within the first 100 million to 200 million years of its existence, our planet cooled enough to make crust. Steam from the atmosphere condensed to make oceans.
"Once you know that there were oceans, it's very reasonable that there would have been life that early" -- even when it was only 200 million years old, Valley said.
How they did the study
Valley and colleagues reported on a different crystal from early Earth in 2001 from the same Jack Hills area. But there had been an open question regarding that crystal and others about how to determine the age.
The standard method of dating such rocks involves looking at the radioactive decay of uranium atoms to lead. But if the lead has moved within the crystal over time, this could lead to a faulty estimate of age. If lead has migrated away from the area of the rock being tested, that could make the rock appear younger than it is, or older if lead has concentrated itself.
In this new study, researchers used a technique called atom-probe tomography, which allows scientists to image single atoms of lead and determine the isotope ratio.
Scientists found that clumps of lead atoms had formed 1 billion years after the zircon crystallized. These clusters are tiny, about 5 to 10 nanometers in diameter.
All that means that the lead atoms hadn't moved enough to thwart scientist's existing methods of determining the crystal's age, Valley said. They determined that age to be 4.4 billion years old.
"Although incredibly laborious, their analytical technique can be applied to not only additional terrestrial zircons but also to zircons from meteorites and lunar samples, to perhaps tease out a detailed thermal history of magmatism and impacts," Samuel Bowring, professor of geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in an accompanying article in Nature Geoscience.
Meanwhile, on Mars
Earth and Mars formed around the same time in the solar system. Just as scientists are analyzing the chemical composition of rocks on Earth to learn about our planet's history, NASA's Curiosity rover is doing the same on Mars.
But one can only do so much via robot. NASA is planning a 2020 rover mission that may be able to collect samples for later delivery to Earth.
There, we may find even more extraordinary gems -- red or otherwise.
Convicted child rapist flees Denver halfway house after ankle monitor cut
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 6:08 PM EST, Sun February 23, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/justice/colorado-missing-child-rapist/index.html?hpt=ju_t2#
Child rapist cuts ankle bracelet, runs
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
A fugitive warrant was requested minutes after Eric Eugene Hartwell, 51, walked away from "Independence House" in Denver Friday evening, Colorado Corrections Department spokesman Roger Hudson told CNN Sunday.
Hartwell was convicted of raping a child in 1991 and attempted indecent liberties in 1996, according to the Colorado sex offender registry.
"This is an active investigation of an absconder that we are hoping not to send even farther underground," Hudson said.
The corrections department's fugitive apprehension unit is working with other law enforcement agencies to find Hartwell "as quickly as possible," he said.
Hartwell was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised parole by a federal judge in Texas in March 2010 after he was found guilty of failing to register as a sex offender, according to a U.S. Justice Department news release.
Hartwell was placed in a halfway house in Washington state in March 2009 for failure to register as a sex offender, but after just a week there he cut off his leg monitor and fled to Texas, according to the Justice Department.
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 6:08 PM EST, Sun February 23, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/justice/colorado-missing-child-rapist/index.html?hpt=ju_t2#
Child rapist cuts ankle bracelet, runs
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Eric Eugene Hartwell was convicted of raping a child in 1991
- Law agencies are working to find Hartwell "as quickly as possible," spokesman says
- Hartwell was ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised parole
- He cut off his leg monitor and fled previously in 2009, the Justice Department says
A fugitive warrant was requested minutes after Eric Eugene Hartwell, 51, walked away from "Independence House" in Denver Friday evening, Colorado Corrections Department spokesman Roger Hudson told CNN Sunday.
Hartwell was convicted of raping a child in 1991 and attempted indecent liberties in 1996, according to the Colorado sex offender registry.
"This is an active investigation of an absconder that we are hoping not to send even farther underground," Hudson said.
The corrections department's fugitive apprehension unit is working with other law enforcement agencies to find Hartwell "as quickly as possible," he said.
Hartwell was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised parole by a federal judge in Texas in March 2010 after he was found guilty of failing to register as a sex offender, according to a U.S. Justice Department news release.
Hartwell was placed in a halfway house in Washington state in March 2009 for failure to register as a sex offender, but after just a week there he cut off his leg monitor and fled to Texas, according to the Justice Department.
'About 20' cases of polio-like illness found in California
By Jacque Wilson and Ashley Hayes, CNN
updated 10:15 AM EST, Tue February 25, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/health/california-mystery-disease/index.html?hpt=us_c2#
Doctors don't know what's causing illness
Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
online posting Monday on the hospital's website.
Sofia Jarvis is one of the children affected. Her mother, Jessica Tomei, told reporters Monday night the family is speaking out to raise awareness of the condition.
Sofia experienced what doctors thought was asthma and spent four days in the hospital, her mother said. As the family was leaving a follow-up pediatrician visit, Sofia reached for a toy out of the doctor's "treasure box." "I saw her left hand, mid-grasp, stop working," her mother said.
"We did not realize what we were in store for," Tomei said. Sofia, who had received a polio vaccination, had spinal cord inflammation, and her left arm is permanently paralyzed.
The paralysis surfaced at age 2, according to Stanford. Sofia is now 4.
Today, she is doing well, Tomei said, but trying to tie her shoes or get dressed -- things she "would normally be learning, we're going to have to find a new way of doing."
Waubant and her colleagues are asking health care providers to be on the lookout for similar cases and send in samples from any patient exhibiting these symptoms.
"We want to temper the concern because, at the moment, it does not appear to represent a major epidemic but only a very rare phenomenon," Van Haren said.
Van Haren and Waubant spoke with reporters Monday night, and Van Haren said that although they have found five cases, there are "preliminary reports of several more."
In the cases, he said, children experience a "sudden onset of flaccid weakness that can occur over the course of hours," affecting one or more limbs.
"The prognosis that we've seen so far is not good," he said. Most of the children have not recovered use of the most severely affected limb, although some recovery has been seen in less-affected limbs.
The condition is associated with "severe weakness," Waubant said. "It's not just dropping a toy; it's more like not being able to move your arm at all."
Polio-like illness found in five California children
Dr. Carol Glaser, chief of the Encephalitis and Special Investigation Section at the California Department of Public Health, said the state is aware of the paralysis cases but believes the risk to families is low.
"We are evaluating cases as they are reported to us," Glaser said in an e-mail to CNN. "We have not found anything at this point that raises any public health concerns."
The department "is taking these reports very seriously," Van Haren said.
The phenomenon, he added, is not entirely new, as similar outbreaks have been seen across the world.
The poliovirus has been eradicated in the United States for more than 30 years. Only three countries in the world are not yet free of the disease: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization.
Why polio hasn't gone away yet
Poliovirus is part of the Picornaviridae family, which also includes enteroviruses and rhinoviruses (better known as the common cold). There are more than 100 types of enterovirus that cause 10 million to 15 million infections in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most people who become infected with an enterovirus do not get sick or experience only mild symptoms, said Dr. Steven Oberste, chief of the Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch at the CDC. Common symptoms include fever, runny nose, cough, skin rash and body aches.
Enterovirus is often the cause of "summer colds," whose cases spike in July, August and September. Children and teens are more likely to fall ill because they have not yet built up immunity to these common viruses.
However, some types of enterovirus are more serious. These can cause hand, foot and mouth disease; viral meningitis; encephalitis (inflammation of the brain); an infection of the heart; and paralysis in some patients.
Enterovirus 68 was first identified in a California lab in 1962 after four children came down with a severe respiratory illness. Between 1970 and 2005, only 26 cases of enterovirus 68 in the United States were reported to the CDC. Since 2000, the government agency has kept a closer watch and has seen 47 cases, Oberste said. Outbreaks have occurred over the years in Asia and Europe, but it's still one of the rarest types of enterovirus.
More common -- and more concerning to health officials -- is enterovirus 71, which was discovered by the same California lab in 1969, Oberste said. Enterovirus 71 is usually associated with severe neurological issues, including aseptic meningitis, polio-like paralysis and encephalitis. Waubant is not sure if the samples from this latest group of patients were tested for enterovirus 71.
According to a CDC report, several outbreaks of paralysis caused by enterovirus 71 were seen in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, fatal encephalitis was a big problem in Malaysia and Taiwan.
"Ever since then, the virus has circulated in high levels in Southeast Asia," Oberste said.
In recent years, the outbreaks have spread to Australia; a cluster of cases near Sydney drew media attention in 2013.
Between 1983 and 2005, 270 cases of enterovirus 71 were reported in the United States. But none has resulted in a larger outbreak despite the infectious nature of the virus.
"That's the really odd thing," Oberste said. "We see cases from time to time in the United States. Occasionally they'll be severe. Basically it's identical to what's circulating in Asia ... but it doesn't cause the same big outbreak in disease. And we really don't know why."
The CDC is aware of the small cluster of cases in California but is not actively involved in an investigation, a spokesman told CNN. Waubant and her colleagues don't want to alarm anyone with their case report presentation; they're simply seeking help in finding the cause of these seemingly connected cases.
Parents need to know that vaccination is key to preventing polio from returning to the United States, Glaser said. While there is no vaccine to protect you from a non-polio enterovirus, washing your hands frequently and avoiding close contact with others who are sick can help.
By Jacque Wilson and Ashley Hayes, CNN
updated 10:15 AM EST, Tue February 25, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/health/california-mystery-disease/index.html?hpt=us_c2#
Doctors don't know what's causing illness
Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
online posting Monday on the hospital's website.
Sofia Jarvis is one of the children affected. Her mother, Jessica Tomei, told reporters Monday night the family is speaking out to raise awareness of the condition.
Sofia experienced what doctors thought was asthma and spent four days in the hospital, her mother said. As the family was leaving a follow-up pediatrician visit, Sofia reached for a toy out of the doctor's "treasure box." "I saw her left hand, mid-grasp, stop working," her mother said.
"We did not realize what we were in store for," Tomei said. Sofia, who had received a polio vaccination, had spinal cord inflammation, and her left arm is permanently paralyzed.
The paralysis surfaced at age 2, according to Stanford. Sofia is now 4.
Today, she is doing well, Tomei said, but trying to tie her shoes or get dressed -- things she "would normally be learning, we're going to have to find a new way of doing."
Waubant and her colleagues are asking health care providers to be on the lookout for similar cases and send in samples from any patient exhibiting these symptoms.
"We want to temper the concern because, at the moment, it does not appear to represent a major epidemic but only a very rare phenomenon," Van Haren said.
Van Haren and Waubant spoke with reporters Monday night, and Van Haren said that although they have found five cases, there are "preliminary reports of several more."
In the cases, he said, children experience a "sudden onset of flaccid weakness that can occur over the course of hours," affecting one or more limbs.
"The prognosis that we've seen so far is not good," he said. Most of the children have not recovered use of the most severely affected limb, although some recovery has been seen in less-affected limbs.
The condition is associated with "severe weakness," Waubant said. "It's not just dropping a toy; it's more like not being able to move your arm at all."
Polio-like illness found in five California children
Dr. Carol Glaser, chief of the Encephalitis and Special Investigation Section at the California Department of Public Health, said the state is aware of the paralysis cases but believes the risk to families is low.
"We are evaluating cases as they are reported to us," Glaser said in an e-mail to CNN. "We have not found anything at this point that raises any public health concerns."
The department "is taking these reports very seriously," Van Haren said.
The phenomenon, he added, is not entirely new, as similar outbreaks have been seen across the world.
The poliovirus has been eradicated in the United States for more than 30 years. Only three countries in the world are not yet free of the disease: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization.
Why polio hasn't gone away yet
Poliovirus is part of the Picornaviridae family, which also includes enteroviruses and rhinoviruses (better known as the common cold). There are more than 100 types of enterovirus that cause 10 million to 15 million infections in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most people who become infected with an enterovirus do not get sick or experience only mild symptoms, said Dr. Steven Oberste, chief of the Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch at the CDC. Common symptoms include fever, runny nose, cough, skin rash and body aches.
Enterovirus is often the cause of "summer colds," whose cases spike in July, August and September. Children and teens are more likely to fall ill because they have not yet built up immunity to these common viruses.
However, some types of enterovirus are more serious. These can cause hand, foot and mouth disease; viral meningitis; encephalitis (inflammation of the brain); an infection of the heart; and paralysis in some patients.
Enterovirus 68 was first identified in a California lab in 1962 after four children came down with a severe respiratory illness. Between 1970 and 2005, only 26 cases of enterovirus 68 in the United States were reported to the CDC. Since 2000, the government agency has kept a closer watch and has seen 47 cases, Oberste said. Outbreaks have occurred over the years in Asia and Europe, but it's still one of the rarest types of enterovirus.
More common -- and more concerning to health officials -- is enterovirus 71, which was discovered by the same California lab in 1969, Oberste said. Enterovirus 71 is usually associated with severe neurological issues, including aseptic meningitis, polio-like paralysis and encephalitis. Waubant is not sure if the samples from this latest group of patients were tested for enterovirus 71.
According to a CDC report, several outbreaks of paralysis caused by enterovirus 71 were seen in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, fatal encephalitis was a big problem in Malaysia and Taiwan.
"Ever since then, the virus has circulated in high levels in Southeast Asia," Oberste said.
In recent years, the outbreaks have spread to Australia; a cluster of cases near Sydney drew media attention in 2013.
Between 1983 and 2005, 270 cases of enterovirus 71 were reported in the United States. But none has resulted in a larger outbreak despite the infectious nature of the virus.
"That's the really odd thing," Oberste said. "We see cases from time to time in the United States. Occasionally they'll be severe. Basically it's identical to what's circulating in Asia ... but it doesn't cause the same big outbreak in disease. And we really don't know why."
The CDC is aware of the small cluster of cases in California but is not actively involved in an investigation, a spokesman told CNN. Waubant and her colleagues don't want to alarm anyone with their case report presentation; they're simply seeking help in finding the cause of these seemingly connected cases.
Parents need to know that vaccination is key to preventing polio from returning to the United States, Glaser said. While there is no vaccine to protect you from a non-polio enterovirus, washing your hands frequently and avoiding close contact with others who are sick can help.
Stephen Ross, Martin to meet soon
Updated: February 25, 2014, 5:55 PM ET
By James Walker | ESPN.com
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MIAMI -- After months of delays, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross expects to meet with embattled offensive tackle Jonathan Martin soon, Ross said Tuesday.
The two initially were scheduled to meet in November amid the Dolphins' high-profile bullying scandal. But lawyers for Martin and the NFL nixed the idea while the league was conducting an investigation.
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"I was precluded from talking to him while the investigation was going on," Ross said on a conference call with Miami media. "Now that we got the report, the lawyers are trying to arrange the meeting, which should take place relatively soon, I believe."
Ross said the meeting with Martin will not be related to football. The Dolphins are expected to trade or release Martin this offseason, and the team met with his representatives last week at the NFL combine to discuss his playing future.
Instead, Ross wants to talk to Martin about what happened and how to prevent bullying and harassment going forward.
"I haven't heard what his feelings are; I've read the report," Ross said. "He wants to talk to me as much as [I want to talk to him]. I'm prepared to listen. When you've dealt with something, it's nice to hear from the person directly."
Ross was speaking on a conference call Tuesday to announce his initiative with NYU and the Jackie Robinson Foundation to improve locker room culture. Ross said he hopes to lead an effort to eliminate racial slurs, harassment and bullying in sports. He also introduced an anti-bullying bill in sports to Florida's legislature.
"How could anybody be against it is really what it comes down to at the end of the day," Ross said. "This is for the good of everybody. I think having this taking place and having so much publicity around it allows us to be heard and hopefully have an impact."
Updated: February 25, 2014, 5:55 PM ET
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MIAMI -- After months of delays, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross expects to meet with embattled offensive tackle Jonathan Martin soon, Ross said Tuesday.
The two initially were scheduled to meet in November amid the Dolphins' high-profile bullying scandal. But lawyers for Martin and the NFL nixed the idea while the league was conducting an investigation.
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"I was precluded from talking to him while the investigation was going on," Ross said on a conference call with Miami media. "Now that we got the report, the lawyers are trying to arrange the meeting, which should take place relatively soon, I believe."
Ross said the meeting with Martin will not be related to football. The Dolphins are expected to trade or release Martin this offseason, and the team met with his representatives last week at the NFL combine to discuss his playing future.
Instead, Ross wants to talk to Martin about what happened and how to prevent bullying and harassment going forward.
"I haven't heard what his feelings are; I've read the report," Ross said. "He wants to talk to me as much as [I want to talk to him]. I'm prepared to listen. When you've dealt with something, it's nice to hear from the person directly."
Ross was speaking on a conference call Tuesday to announce his initiative with NYU and the Jackie Robinson Foundation to improve locker room culture. Ross said he hopes to lead an effort to eliminate racial slurs, harassment and bullying in sports. He also introduced an anti-bullying bill in sports to Florida's legislature.
"How could anybody be against it is really what it comes down to at the end of the day," Ross said. "This is for the good of everybody. I think having this taking place and having so much publicity around it allows us to be heard and hopefully have an impact."
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'Ghostbusters 3' Still Moving Ahead Following Death Of Harold Ramis
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BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
FEBRUARY 25, 2014 6:18 PM
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It's barely been 24 hours since Harold Ramiss, sadly, passed away, but Hollywood business doesn't wait, and that means Sony is trying to figure out what to do with their forever-developing "Ghostbusters 3." The project (which has been haunted by Dan Aykroyd continually talking about the movies) is still being worked on, but seems a long way away from anything resembling a green light. And with Ramis passing, some tweaks will obviously have to be made.
THR reports that director Ivan Reitman will be meeting with Sony suits soon to talk about how to keep the movie moving forward. But apparently it won't be too much of a problem; while Ramis wrote the first two movies, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky were tasked with the third installment. Ramis was said to be only tangentially involved. The completed script apparently features cameos from the original Ghostbusters, with the focus of the story being a new team taking on the supernatural job.
It would be nice if Ramis' death made everyone stop and assess if this is even a good idea, but maybe that's hoping for too much. But deals with the original Ghostbusters—each of whom have rights to the property and future profits—still need to be made, so this could still be a long time coming.
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BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
FEBRUARY 25, 2014 6:18 PM
1 COMMENT
It's barely been 24 hours since Harold Ramiss, sadly, passed away, but Hollywood business doesn't wait, and that means Sony is trying to figure out what to do with their forever-developing "Ghostbusters 3." The project (which has been haunted by Dan Aykroyd continually talking about the movies) is still being worked on, but seems a long way away from anything resembling a green light. And with Ramis passing, some tweaks will obviously have to be made.
THR reports that director Ivan Reitman will be meeting with Sony suits soon to talk about how to keep the movie moving forward. But apparently it won't be too much of a problem; while Ramis wrote the first two movies, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky were tasked with the third installment. Ramis was said to be only tangentially involved. The completed script apparently features cameos from the original Ghostbusters, with the focus of the story being a new team taking on the supernatural job.
It would be nice if Ramis' death made everyone stop and assess if this is even a good idea, but maybe that's hoping for too much. But deals with the original Ghostbusters—each of whom have rights to the property and future profits—still need to be made, so this could still be a long time coming.
Karl Urban Says "Conversations" Are Happening For 'Dredd' Sequel After Strong DVD Sales
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BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
FEBRUARY 25, 2014 5:51 PM
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"Dredd 3D"
The last word we heard on the prospect of a "Dredd" sequel came last spring, when producer Adi Shankar said "probably not" when asked about a followup. It's hard to fault the logic, considering the franchise reboot earned a measly $35 million worldwide on a budget of $50 million, and the helmeted hero barely registering with audiences. But it seems DVDs are keeping hope alive.
At the Destination Star Trek Frankfurt event (which we didn't even know was a thing), Karl Urban was in attendance for fans, and when asked about Dredd 2, Urban replied that "conversations" were happening thanks to the first film's performance on home video. Apparently, there is some form of chatter happening betweenLionsgate, screenwriter Alex Garland and director Peter Travis. Who really knows what the extent of the talks are, but we'd guess that the first question to be addressed will be how to find an audience that wasn't there the first time around.
Do you want to see a "Dredd" sequel or should they just let it go already? Let us know in the comments section. [What Culture]
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BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
FEBRUARY 25, 2014 5:51 PM
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"Dredd 3D"
The last word we heard on the prospect of a "Dredd" sequel came last spring, when producer Adi Shankar said "probably not" when asked about a followup. It's hard to fault the logic, considering the franchise reboot earned a measly $35 million worldwide on a budget of $50 million, and the helmeted hero barely registering with audiences. But it seems DVDs are keeping hope alive.
At the Destination Star Trek Frankfurt event (which we didn't even know was a thing), Karl Urban was in attendance for fans, and when asked about Dredd 2, Urban replied that "conversations" were happening thanks to the first film's performance on home video. Apparently, there is some form of chatter happening betweenLionsgate, screenwriter Alex Garland and director Peter Travis. Who really knows what the extent of the talks are, but we'd guess that the first question to be addressed will be how to find an audience that wasn't there the first time around.
Do you want to see a "Dredd" sequel or should they just let it go already? Let us know in the comments section. [What Culture]
Watch: New Full-Length 'Godzilla' Trailer Rises Out Of The Ocean
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BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
FEBRUARY 25, 2014 1:00 PM
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"The great thing with a project like 'Godzilla' is that when you’re doing a movie like this that involves a monster that’s so beloved, you suddenly get access to the greatest visual artists out there working today. So I was very lucky in terms of that," director Gareth Edwards told Bloody Disgusting last summer. "...in terms of designing 'Godzilla,' we spent about an entire year just working on that aspect alone. You never quite feel like you have enough time but I wouldn’t change a single thing with the design. I’m so incredibly happy with it."
And that's not all he has to be happy with. He's got a much better cast than this kind of thing usually gets, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche and Sally Hawkins all featuring, but moreover, this just looks very promising. The first trailer was pretty damn solid, and this new one—well, we'll let you tell us what you think below.
"Godzilla" rises from the deep on May 16th. Watch below.
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BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
FEBRUARY 25, 2014 1:00 PM
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"The great thing with a project like 'Godzilla' is that when you’re doing a movie like this that involves a monster that’s so beloved, you suddenly get access to the greatest visual artists out there working today. So I was very lucky in terms of that," director Gareth Edwards told Bloody Disgusting last summer. "...in terms of designing 'Godzilla,' we spent about an entire year just working on that aspect alone. You never quite feel like you have enough time but I wouldn’t change a single thing with the design. I’m so incredibly happy with it."
And that's not all he has to be happy with. He's got a much better cast than this kind of thing usually gets, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe, Juliette Binoche and Sally Hawkins all featuring, but moreover, this just looks very promising. The first trailer was pretty damn solid, and this new one—well, we'll let you tell us what you think below.
"Godzilla" rises from the deep on May 16th. Watch below.