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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.
ATHENS – Greece’s medical authorities went on alert after the death of an 8-year-old boy in a hospital amid fears it could be diptheria – thought eradicated three decades earlier in the country – although he had been vaccinated for the disease.
He was being treated in the intensive care unit of the Athens General Children’s Hospital and doctors became alarmed after lab tests showed it could be diptheria, which creates a thick gray coating in the throat making it difficult.
Greek medical officials were waiting for results from the United Kingdom’s Public Health England agency to confirm the cause after they said he died of acute respiratory infection, pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary edema.
The child, said to have been in the care of a foster family for three years, was admitted to the hospital Nov. 22 with symptoms of acute laryngitis and severe respiratory distress and his deteriorating condition prompted doctors to place him in the ICU, said Kathimerini.
Despite initial reports he was only partially vaccinated against diphtheria, sources from the National Health Organization (EODY) told the paper he had received all five necessary shots without an explanation why he contracted the illness nevertheless.
The European Commission was set to present the 2019 State of Health in the European Union report which examines health care systems in the 28-country bloc, including Greece, said Euractiv.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.