Rise of H.I.V. in Russia Is Quickening, Official Says (NY Times)

エイズ

Russia's top government AIDS expert offered a harrowing assessment of the disease's spread today, saying that at least a half-million Russians now carry the H.I.V. virus and that the true number could range as high as 1.5 million, or more than 1 percent of the overall population, which is about 147 million. More ominous still, he said, foreign experts now say the total number of people infected could surpass seven million -- 1 in every 25 Russians -- in as few as five years.

ドラッグユーザーのHIV感染が頭打ちし、性的感染が増加しつづけているという報告も。このままロシア人口が減りつづけると、国家的な壊滅危機になるかも。

BSE tests on first herd prove negative (Globe and Mail)

狂牛病

Those results rule out the possibility that unhealthy practices at that ranch in northern Alberta caused the infection, Dr. Evans said. It also bolsters the agency's repeated assurances that Canadian meat remains safe, he added, and that the regulatory system has worked properly.

Rescue mission for Europe's rockets (BBC)

宇宙開発

ソユーズが欧州宇宙機関（ESA）の仏領ギアナ・クールーから打ち上げられるようになるかも。以前日記のほうにもメモしておいたのだけど、なるほど、これはロシア側にとってもESA側にとってもいいディールであるみたい。