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07/06/2007
Doctors have reported a heightened incidence of tick-transmitted infections in many parts of the Czech Republic. Since the beginning of spring, when ticks become active, over 1,000 people were infected, 69 of them developed tick-borne encephalitis, the others Lyme disease. Tick-borne encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain, which can cause permanent neurological damage and - in some cases - death. Only about 15 percent of Czechs have been vaccinated against it. To add to the problem, the health ministry failed to buy enough vaccines and they are now in short supply. Experts attribute the heightened incidence of ticks in many parts of the Czech Republic to the mild winter.
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07/06/2007
The European Federation of Psychologists' Associations /EFPA/ held its 10th European Congress of Psychology in Prague this week. Despite it being a European event it was attended by over 3,000 psychologists from around the world. The congress covered a wide range of topics: the current state of knowledge, "blank spaces" and the application of particular psychological disciplines in practice. EFPA was founded in 1981 to promote co-operation within European psychology and to increase the influence of psychologists in Europe. Today it has over 200,000 members in 32 European states.
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07/06/2007
A thirty year old Czech man is reported to have drowned in Great Britain. The man was working as a farm hand in Kent and had gone for a swim in a nearby lake. His friends said he dived in and failed to come up and although several people jumped into the water to try and find him no one did. It took divers 24 hours to find his dead body. An autopsy is being carried out to ascertain the cause of death.
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07/06/2007
French Open champion Rafael Nadal beat Tomas Berdych 7-6 6-4 6-2 to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals for the second successive year on Friday. The players had trouble adjusting to the wind on Centre Court in the opening games with number two seed Nadal breaking Berdych's serve in the second and the Czech, seeded seventh, breaking back immediately. Nadal turned on the power in the first set tiebreak, going 5-0 up before winning it 7-1 to take the set in 58 minutes. He took control of the match then and never relinquished it.
Both Berdych and 14th seed Nicole Vaidisova won a place in the quarterfinals for the first time ever but neither realized their hope of advancing to the semi-finals. Nicole Vaidisova dropped out on Thursday after taking a beating from the Serbian sixth seed Ana Ivanovic.
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07/06/2007
Czech star goaltender Dominik Hasek, still showing top form at age 42, agreed to terms Friday with the Detroit Red Wings on a new one-year National Hockey League contract. The deal, reportedly worth more than two million dollars, makes the six-time Vezina Trophy winner as top NHL netminder a Red Wing for his 15th NHL season.
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07/05/2007
July 5th is a national holiday in the Czech Republic commemorating Saints Cyril and Methodius, Greek missionaries who brought Christianity to the Czech lands in 863. They also created the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the Gospel and liturgical books into Slavonic, which at that time had no written form. The two brothers are considered the founders of Slavic literature.
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07/05/2007
As every year on this day thousands of believers made a pilgrimage to Velehrad in south Moravia, where Cardinal Miloslav Vlk served a special mass out in the open. The mass was attended by high church dignitaries including the Vatican's secretary of state Tarcisio Bertone.
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07/05/2007
Czech Muslems have condemned the foiled terrorist attacks in Great Britain saying that violence against innocent people was deplorable under any circumstances and expressed their support for the war against terrorism. Vladimir Sanka, a leading representative of the Czech Muslim community, expressed concern about a possible backlash against all people of the Muslem faith. "Those who seek to harm innocent people are enemies of us all - Muslims and non-Muslims," Sanka said.
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07/05/2007
The south Bohemian village Troubky nad Becvou is marking the tenth anniversary of devastating floods that almost wiped it off the map. In 1997 the country was hit by the worst floods in 500 years, taking lives, destroying houses and ravaging the countryside. The village of Troubky was the worst affected - nine people drowned and three hundred houses were either completely destroyed or so badly damaged they had to be torn down. Troubky became a synonym for disaster but aid poured in and within a few years the village was rebuilt from scratch. On Thursday the villagers attended a remembrance mass for those who lost their lives in the tragedy and viewed a photo exhibition documenting the 1997 disaster.
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07/05/2007
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said on Wednesday that he did not think it wise to seek a "third party" who would act as judge in the Czech Austrian dispute over the Temelin nuclear power plant. Mr. Schwarzenberg was reacting to a suggestion made by Austrian deputy Albrech Konecny who said on Monday it might be a good idea to let a third party, possibly the EU, decide who was right in the Czech-Austrian dispute over Temelin, because the two sides were clearly unable to reach agreement. The Czech foreign minister said that while he was not in favour of turning the matter over to a "third party" he thought consultations with foreign nuclear experts could be helpful.
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