Sarpsborg, Norway News

Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. His parents were Harald Dahl of Sarpsborg, Ostfold, and Sofie Magdalene Dah,l nee Hesselberg.

The next time you find yourself stuck in rush-hour traffic in the vicinity of the Sumner Tunnel in Boston, take a moment to notice the sculpted decorative medallions over the tunnel entrance.

The National Health Institute is waiting for test results from the outbreak in stfold County.

It took officials in southern Norway nearly two weeks before they warned state health authorities of another outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease in Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad.

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Former national leaders, environmentalists and experts have gathered in southern Norway to seek technological and financial ways of preventing climate change.

Norwegian arhaeologists are puzzled by a find which indicates an Inca Indian died and was buried in the Oestfold city of Sarpsborg 1000 years ago.

Norwegian company Energos AS, a subsidiary of UK-based Ener-G Holdings, has been awarded a contract to supply an 80,000 ton per annum energy from waste plant to Hafslund Heat & Infrastructure AS. via American Recycler

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“If the environmental conditions in the scrubber are favorable for Legionella growth, industrial air scrubbers may, under certain conditions, be very potent disseminators of aerosols, as shown by the widespread transmission in this outbreak”

By Megan Rauscher

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An industrial pollution-control air scrubber in Sarpsborg, Norway has been identified as the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires disease that occurred in May 2005, according to health officials who investigated the outbreak.

Legionnaires disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by bacteria in water droplets.

Fifty-six people diagnosed with Legionnaires became ill between May 12 and May 25; and 10 of them died. All 56 people lived up to 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) apart and had not visited places in common. Read more