Tornado record
More than 1700 tornadoes battered the US in 2004, the most since the US National Weather Service began collecting data in 1950. But improved detection systems meant there were only 35 deaths, fewer than in recent years. In 2001 to 2003 the annual average number of tornadoes was 1195.
Rabid teenager recovers
An American teenager has survived rabies without vaccination, the first person known to have done so. Vaccination can save bite victims if given before symptoms appear. But when Jeanna Giese was admitted to hospital in October, a month after being bitten by a bat, it was…
