A hazmat clean-up crew was on the way today to the apartment of the New York Ebola-stricken doctor, an official revealed.

Councilman Mark Levine, of the 7th district in Harlem where Dr Craig Spencer lives, told MailOnline on Friday that a contractor would carry out an environmental clean-up at the fifth floor home after it was sealed. The NYPD began putting up barriers late on Friday morning. 

A biohazard truck arrived on the block today which had large blue sealed containers in the back.  

Mr Levine said: 'They're going to be looking for body fluids and they're going to be looking for any item which would have been in contact with Dr Spencer's body, like sheets and pillow cases and tooth brushes and bath towels.

'The apartment will be cleaned and sanitized so it can be used again safely. We're hoping that Dr Spencer himself can return home soon.' 

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More at source: Daily UK

On every Wednesday since the start of the school year, a small group of parents equipped with gloves, brushes, brooms and other cleaning supplies descend on the school on the border of Los Feliz and Silver Lake to clean up bathrooms and other areas  while educating its approximately 1,500 students on how to keep their campus clean.

“We want to bring back a sense of pride and community that will build morale and help the students,” said Renae Plant, who organized the cleans up as part of her work on the school’s beautification committee.

After hearing many concerns and complaints from students and their parents about how dirty the bathrooms were, Plant, whose daughter attends King, took matters into her own hands by organizing the Wednesday cleans up between 10 a.m. and 1 pm.

More at source: LA East Sider

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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -The East Idaho Public Health District is preparing for flu season with vaccinations.

According the the Center for Disease Control, two people have died in the U.S. this year due to flu-related illnesses. About 36,000 people die each year and 90 percent of those people were over the age of 65. Seniors and children are the most susceptible, and account for most flu-related hospitalization and deaths. Immunization coordinator James Corbett recommends a yearly flu vaccine for everyone 6 months of age and older, as it's the only sure way to prevent the disease.

More at source: ABC

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A large number of students from Kyrene de la Colina Elementary School were sent home Thursday after the school experienced several bouts of norovirus undefined a common stomach virus.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus can be transmitted from an infected person, contaminated food or water or by touching a contaminated surface.

The most common symptoms of norovirus, which usually begin 24 to 48 hours after exposure, consist of diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain and nausea.

The Kyrene School District took precautions to curtail the virus by coordinating with the Maricopa County Health Department; securing a professional cleaning company to clean the Colina’s facilitates and buses; and having the district Crisis Team leader and nurses coordinate to determine additional steps to prevent the illness from spreading.

More at source: East Valley Tribune

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Utica, N.Y. - The world's largest LED free-hanging chandelier was lowered today at the Stanley Theatre. The 7,000 pound chandelier is getting some tuning up by Meyda lighting for the next couple of days. They were busy wiping it down and vacuuming the dust out. According to Max Cohen, Director of Hospitality Marketing at Meyda Lighting, they will also be running a couple of tests during the night to see if the new equipment is up to par so there are not any problems in the middle of a show. 

The one plus is that since it is lit by LED lights, there are no light bulbs that need to be replaced. But because the chandelier has not been lowered since 2008, the Meyda crew is going through to check everything to make sure that the equipment they are using is still working and find ways to make it brighter and use less power.

More at source: WKTV

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A Miley Cyrus fan has exposed a major security flaw on the pop star’s Bangerz world tour after gaining access to her dressing room at a gig in Sydney, Australia.

Anthony Skinner noticed a cleaner’s store room at the All Phones Arena had been left open during Miley‘s show on Friday night and slipped into the backstage area unnoticed.

More at source: Daily Scoop

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The international labor union SEIU says it has “real concerns about the safety of cleaning crews and other people who work at airports, such as wheelchair agents.”

The union’s Occupational Health and Safety Director Mark Catlin told Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that beyond the primary concern for health care workers providing direct care to possible Ebola patients, he is also thinking about the safety of cleaning crews in airplanes and at airports, and even laundering companies that clean hospital bedding and uniforms.

“What’s really been missing [from the discussion] is the fact that it’s employers in this country under our U.S. law undefined under the Occupational Safety and Health Act undefined that have the primary responsibility to maintain a healthy and safe workplace,” Catlin said. “So it’s the employers’ responsibility to take the CDC guidance, mandatory requirements by federal OSHA and other agencies and incorporate those into site-specific plans for how workers are going to be protected, the protocols they are going to follow and how they’re going to be trained and how they’re going to get the equipment.....

More at source: Here & Now

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WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio undefined The mayor of a suburban Cleveland city put two workers on leave and ordered city hall closed for cleaning because of Ebola concerns.

The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reports that Warrensville Heights Mayor Brad Sellers took the steps for Friday because the husband of one of the workers had a co-worker who was on the plane that carried a nurse later diagnosed with the virus.

And he said a separate worker "may have" been in contact with a family member of the nurse, Amber Vinson, who was diagnosed after flying from Cleveland to Dallas.

Sellers says he took the steps as a precaution because of the fear and rumors swirling around the situation. He said there was no reason to believe anyone at city hall was infected.

More at source: Republic

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An Arik Air flight was delayed for several hours yesterday, following the Ebola scare that occurred when a man traveling from Lagos to New York died on one of the airline’s aircrafts.

According to Sahara Reporters, the cleaning company that was hired to work on the aircraft “refused to go near the aircraft citing fears that the aircraft might be harboring Ebola virus.”

Officials reportedly had to find another cleaning company at the last minute to ensure that the flight left New York for its Lagos destination.

More at source: BellaJalla

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A switch in cleaning crews decontaminating the apartment where Dallas’ second Ebola patient lived has left some officials unhappy.

Fort Worth company CG Environmental – Cleaning Guys, the same company that cleaned the northeast Dallas apartment where first Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, had stayed, were initially contracted to decontaminate the second patient’s home as well. However, they were replaced after completing phase one of the process yesterday. Phase one included cleaning the apartment, the patient's car and surrounding areas, including the sidewalk and handrails.

More at source: Biz Journals

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