66160GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material On one highway, drivers are getting warned about a ‘syphilis tsunami’http://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/national/article166865062.html#storylink=hpdigestUnlike southbound drivers on a highway in Fort Worth, Texas, who are warned thrice of the dangers of the Zika virus by billboard PSAs, northbound drivers are being met with an altogether more jarring message. There’s a “Syphilis Tsunami” threatening Fort Worth if we’re to believe one billboard. The image, part of a campaign for freeSTDcheck.Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:39:00 +0200macon-947313fda1a4ac6d560975ecd74f2c0020170812053900On one highway, drivers are getting warned about a ‘syphilis tsunami’http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article166865062.html#navlink=SecListUnlike southbound drivers on a highway in Fort Worth, Texas, who are warned thrice of the dangers of the Zika virus by billboard PSAs, northbound drivers are being met with an altogether more jarring message. There’s a “Syphilis Tsunami” threatening Fort Worth if we’re to believe one billboard. The image, part of a campaign for freeSTDcheck.Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:31:00 +0200miamiherald-947313fda1a4ac6d560975ecd74f2c0020170812053100On one highway, drivers are getting warned about a ‘syphilis tsunami’http://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article166865062.html#storylink=latest_sideUnlike southbound drivers on a highway in Fort Worth, Texas, who are warned thrice of the dangers of the Zika virus by billboard PSAs, northbound drivers are being met with an altogether more jarring message. There’s a “Syphilis Tsunami” threatening Fort Worth if we’re to believe one billboard. The image, part of a campaign for freeSTDcheck.Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:07:00 +0200fresnobee-947313fda1a4ac6d560975ecd74f2c0020170812050700Mystery of missing tsunamis explained by geological model Massive debris flows below the waves can trigger devastating tsunamis, but sometimes they generate the merest ripple – now we know whyhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2143611-mystery-of-missing-tsunamis-explained-by-geological-model/Catastrophic landslides can trigger tsunamis like this one in Japan. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty. By Kate Ravilious. How is it that one underwater landslide leads to a devastating tsunami, while another of similar size barely causes a ripple? The answer may lie in the way the sediments slide.Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:01:00 +0200newscientist-0764e96af82ed4cec40c3801cd043bda20170812050100