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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW YORK – New York City health department officials are targeting a Bronx neighborhood after one person died and two others became severely ill from contracting a rare disease transmitted by rats.
The three cases of leptospirosis occurred in the last two months within a one block radius.
Although New York City typically gets one to three cases of leptospirosis every year, city officials said it’s the first time a cluster of cases has been identified.
“This illness can be serious but is treatable with readily available antibiotics,” health officials said in a statement.
Infections commonly occur through exposure to rat urine. It can be contracted through open wounds and cuts in the skin, or through the eyes, nose or mouth. The disease is rarely spread from person to person.
The city said it’s reducing the rat population in the area and educating residents about the disease.
In a building in which one of the patients was diagnosed with leptospirosis, health officials said they found signs of rat infestation in the basement.
At an emergency meeting Wednesday night, angry residents complained about the rat problem and blasted city officials and the building’s owner for failing them.
Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio later released a statement saying the city was “working with housing advocates and tenants to lodge an action against the landlord to take over operations.”
Twenty-six cases of leptospirosis were reported in New York City between 2006 and 2016, according to health department figures.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.