First Aid

Pet First Aid class offered through Red Cross (Stevens Point Journal)

9 May 2008

The American Red Cross is offering a Pet First Aid course which covers emergency care procedures for cats and dogs. The four-hour course features components of first aid and offers step-by-step directions for topics from giving medication to administering CPR and rescue breathing. Participants learn to detect signals when something is wrong and respond appropriately. The next Pet First Aid class ...

UN stops dispatching aid shipments to Myanmar after junta seized first delivery (Nasdaq)

9 May 2008

(RTTNews) - The World Food Program has stopped dispatching aid shipments to Myanmar after the authorities seized contents of its first delivery intended for victims of the cyclone disaster, U.N. officials said.

First Aid Flights May Reach Myanmar; Death Toll Could Exceed 100,000 (Insurance Journal)

9 May 2008

Myanmar's (Burma's) isolationist military regime gave the go-ahead for the first major airlift of international aid into the country Thursday, while dragging its feet on urgently requested visas by fo