Medicine

An Italian passenger has been taken into quarantine after falling ill during a flight between Kano, Nigeria and Istanbul’s Atatürk airport on Aug. 22.

The 23-year-old woman reportedly had a fever before she boarded the plane in the northern Nigerian city, but local doctors allowed her to board the Turkish Airlines flight after they diagnosed her with Malaria.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) on Thursday contradicted foreign press reports according to which hundreds of tourists suffered food poisoning at a hotel on Rhodes earlier this month, stating that the likeliest explanation for the sickness of a large number of guests and employees at the establishment in question was infectious gastroenteritis.

Police in Thessaloniki arrested a 46-year-old man on Thursday after he was found to be cultivating 26 cannabis plants on the balcony of his apartment in the city’s Ano Poli neighborhood.

Officers also seized 608 grams of hashish and a digital scale at the property.

The UN's new pointman on Ebola was due to arrive in west Africa on Thursday for a visit aimed at shoring up health services in the region where at least 1,350 lives have been lost to the virus.
      

A total of 172 "suicide tourists" travelled to Switzerland in 2012, double the 2009 number, to die with medical assistance -- a practice prohibited in many countries, a study said Thursday.
      

Russia has decided to exclude some of the food products on which it imposed a ban earlier in August, a decree published on the government's website shows.

Lactose-free milk, potatoes, small salmons and trouts for breeding-pools, potato and onion seedlings, hybrid sugar corn and peas, and also biologically active supplements.

BELGRADE - African asylum seekers illegally crossing into Serbia are treated with particular care to prevent the Ebola virus from reaching the country, Serbian Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar said on Wednesday.

Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan said Wednesday he felt "ashamed" of his son's detention on drug-related charges, adding he had "failed to educate" his child.
      
Jaycee Chan, who like his father is a singer and actor, was detained last week after police found more than 100 grams of cannabis at his home in Beijing, according to Chinese state-run media.
      

Turks consumed 1.127 billion liters of alcohol in 2012, according to a recent response by the Health Ministry to a series of parliamentary questions, which also highlighted that overall consumption fell by 10 percent last year.

The amount of absolute alcohol consumed per person annually stands at around 1.55 liters, which is well below the European average of 10 liters.

Croatia is monitoring 18 citizens who have returned from Africa for the deadly Ebola virus as a precautionary measure.

Of the 18, 17 are sailors who have been working on oil platforms in Nigeria, while one is a peace corps soldier who was stationed in Liberia - the country worst hit by the epidemic.