The southern Wales measles outbreak could disseminate to other zones of Britain, as per prominent immunisation specialist Dr. David Elliman. The immunisation expert has cautioned that London and the northern portion of the nation are especially susceptible to a measles outbreak. The London measles outbreak is a possibility as the capital has the lowest uptake of MMR vaccinations in the nation, in accordance with Dr. David Elliman. The MMR vaccine…

GlaxoSmithKline’s ‘four strain’ flu jab has been authorised to market itself in Germany and UK. The development makes GlaxoSmithKline’s ‘four strain’ flu jab the first to be endorsed in a European nation for the active immunisation of adults and kids (from three years of age). The new GSK product contains two influenza A subtypes and two influenza B subtypes and will be vended as Influsplit Tetra in Germany and Fluarix…

Coca-Cola has proclaimed that it is adding a new sweetener - stevia - in UK Sprite, in a reaction to the Coalition’s push, calling on companies to address obesity. Coca-Cola’s stevia UK Sprite will have 30 percent fewer calories. Sprite Zero, which is devoid of any calorific ingredient, will also be made available in the UK. Coca-Cola also implemented a similar move with France in 2012. Food makers have been attempting to employ the…

Google Glass could pose a serious cancer risk according to the reports brewing in the market. The Project Glass from the search engine giant uses Bluetooth connection from the user’s mobile phone to connect to the internet. Many reports suggest the radio waves emitted during this process might be carcinogenic. The topic still remains unexplained as to whether or not Google Glass is harmful to the user’s health. The wearable…

The UK horse meat scandal has led to a new development, with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) divulging that eight horses, slaughtered in the UK, have tested positive for the sedative bute. Almost 206 horse carcasses were examined, with England’s chief medical officer voicing that 1.9 mg of bute per kg of horse meat was detected in England. Significantly, the chief medical officer has voiced that this posed very little…

Third patient in Britain has become infected with the novel coronavirus (NCoV), a new SARS-like virus, which demonstrates that the lethal infection is disseminating from person to person, as per Britain’s Health Protection Agency (HPA). Novel coronavirus is associated with the same family as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). The WHO has remarked that the novel coronavirus is persistent. As per John Watson, the chief of the HPA’s division of…

The horse meat scandal has intensified, with two British abattoirs being raided by the police last night on suspicion of distributing tainted beef. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) shut down a slaughterhouse in West Yorkshire and a processing plant in Wales, subsequent to an inquiry discovering that horse meat had been utilised to prepare beefburgers and kebabs sold in the UK. It has also emerged that random testing on horse…

Horsemeat scandal has scaled new heights with Tesco admitting to finding over 60% horse meat in its range of spaghetti bolognese ready meals. Tesco had conducted tests on the frozen Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognese, which was pulled off shelves last week as a precautionary measure. Tesco’s horsemeat results come after frozen food firm Findus and Aldi found horsemeat in products made by French firm Comigel, which has been dropped as the supplier after widespread…

The Findus horse meat scandal doesn’t have the involvement of Romanian slaughterhouses, the Romanian PM Victor Ponta has voiced. The PM of the East European nation has angrily refuted allegations that two Romanian slaughterhouses had sold horse meat as beef to European food companies. As per Victor Ponta, appropriate checks had been implemented and there had been no infringement of food regulations and standards. The Romanian slaughterhouses in question had…

Horsemeat scandal has taken an ugly turn with a French politician speculating that some of the horsemeat which has turned up at supermarket shelves in Britain, France and Sweden, may in fact be donkey’s meat. The politician’s accusations come just as six French retailers are found to have withdrawn frozen foods by Findus and Comigel from their shelves, while an inquiry into the foods is underway. The French politician suggested that law which bans horses as…