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Egyptian woman with bird flu dies: health official | A 37-year-old Egyptian woman who tested positive for the bird flu virus has died in hospital, bringing the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt to 13, a government health official said on Friday. | A woman attacked in the same area where a French student was murdered sends the family her sympathy. | eng_Latn | 500 |
U.N. Agency Is Moving to Contain Outbreaks of Disease | As rains dilute the salt water and create stagnant pools that could serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes, fears have arisen about a surge in viral and parasitic diseases. | Hospitals in the Indonesian capital were overwhelmed on Tuesday with hundreds of flood victims suffering from water-borne diseases after the city's worst flooding in five years. | eng_Latn | 501 |
Avian flu kills tigers in Thailand, chickens in Vietnam | Oct 19, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A government official in Thailand said 23 tigers at a private zoo died of avian influenza after eating the carcasses of chickens believed to have had the disease, the Associated Press reported today. | Elton John has clashed with photographers at Taiwan's Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Airport, calling them "vile pigs.". | eng_Latn | 502 |
Another bird flu outbreak likely | World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that an outbreak of bird flu mixed with a human influenza virus could kill millions of people across the globe that had the potential to be worse than the SARS virus. | U.S. authorities last week blamed tuberculosis carrier Andrew Speaker's illicit reentry to America on a single point of human error, faulting a Champlain, N.Y., inspector who failed to detain him as instructed by a computer alert. | eng_Latn | 503 |
Experts dampen bird flu fears | International health officials at an emergency meeting in Bangkok Monday said there is no evidence that bird flu has been passed from one human to another. | Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead. | eng_Latn | 504 |
Thailand bird flu deaths increase | A girl becomes the 11th Thai victim of bird flu this year, dying only a few days after falling ill. | Hospitals in the Indonesian capital were overwhelmed on Tuesday with hundreds of flood victims suffering from water-borne diseases after the city's worst flooding in five years. | eng_Latn | 505 |
One more Vietnamese suspected to contract bird flu | HANOI, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- A child from Vietnam's southern Hau Giang province, the home to most suspected cases of bird flu in the country, received treatment after showing symptoms of fever and breathing difficulties. | Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead. | eng_Latn | 506 |
Six feared dead in chopper crash | SIX people were feared dead after a US Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the icy Bering Sea while rescuing the crew of a Malaysian ship that broke up off the Alaska coast. | Zimbabwe warns of floods from the aftermath of Cyclone Favio which injured at least 20 in central Mozambique. | eng_Latn | 507 |
Egyptian woman tests positive for bird flu: WHO | A 37-year-old Egyptian woman has tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus, bringing the number of confirmed cases in Egypt to 21, a World Health Organization official said on Wednesday. | BRITAIN is "in the grip of a serious HIV epidemic" as the number of people suffering from the infection continues to soar, new figures showed today. | eng_Latn | 508 |
Why bird flu has been kept at bay | Scientists say they have found a key reason why bird flu has so far not posed a widespread threat to humans. | Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead. | eng_Latn | 509 |
British bird flu farm says not at fault for outbreak | Bernard Matthews, the head of the turkey-producing firm that bears his name, has said that the recent outbreak of a potentialy deadly strain of avian flu at his company's farm was not their fault. | An investigation is under way to discover how a banned antibotic is found in organic chicken processed in NI. | eng_Latn | 510 |
Don't ignore less virulent bird flu strains, experts say | Experts have called for closer study of less lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be more likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic. | Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Common Kestrel Tested for H5 Virus in HK" - Xinhua headline] Hong Kong, Feb. | eng_Latn | 511 |
Tigers in Thai zoo dying of bird flu | BANGKOK - Avian influenza has killed 23 tigers and sickened 30 more at a private zoo in eastern Thailand, Thai officials said on Tuesday. | Elton John has clashed with photographers at Taiwan's Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Airport, calling them "vile pigs.". | eng_Latn | 512 |
Scientists Warn That Bird-Flu Virus Remains a Threat | This year, bird flu seems all but forgotten. But scientists say that the virus is as dangerous and unpredictable as ever. | Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead. | eng_Latn | 513 |
Avian flu pandemic likely unless more efforts taken, WHO chief ... | A top World Health Organization official warned Saturday of a likely global pandemic of avian flu unless tougher efforts are made to combat the virus's spread and improve sanitation in the poultry industry. | Scientists and officials strengthened efforts to forestall the extinction of thousands of species and protect the world's habitats in talks in Bangkok, but governments need to work harder to promote conservation, an international environment agency said Thursday. | eng_Latn | 514 |
Don't give up on advanced human bird flu cases: expert | An expert who treated numerous bird flu victims in Vietnam has urged doctors not to lose hope with patients who are admitted late to hospital as there is still a good chance that they can survive. | Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead. | eng_Latn | 515 |
Common Kestrel Tested for H5 Bird Flu Virus in Hong Kong | Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Common Kestrel Tested for H5 Virus in HK" - Xinhua headline] Hong Kong, Feb. | ISLAND STRATEGIC PLAN INQUIRY TO GO AHEAD THE public inquiry into the Island strategic plan will go ahead despite concerns it is 'fundamentally flawed'. Property developer Henry Kennaugh, director of Baccarat ... | eng_Latn | 516 |
Ominous signs in avian flu's return | YEN NGHIA COMMUNE, Vietnam A small house here by a river covered with dark green spinach plants is quieter now, the cries of an 11-month-old girl no longer heard. | Hundreds of U.S. bird-lovers have flocked to a New England resort island to catch a glimpse of a rare falcon that appears to have made a wrong turn, ended up half a world away and may never find its way home. | eng_Latn | 517 |
Nearly 100 Vietnamese dead or missing in typhoon | Nearly 100 people were killed or are missing after a typhoon hit the southern coast of Vietnam this week, damaging hundreds of thousands of flimsy homes, a government report said on Thursday. | A girl becomes the 11th Thai victim of bird flu this year, dying only a few days after falling ill. | eng_Latn | 518 |
Bird Flu causes concern | Health officials are concerned about a Bird Flu outbreak they say could kill millions of people. The World Health Organization says as many as seven million people could die and billions of others could get | Can worrying about terrorism be just as bad for your health as terrorism itself? | eng_Latn | 519 |
Asia battles earthquake aftermath | Survivors and rescuers are battling through the devastation left by sea surges that killed more than 15,000 people on Asia's southern shores. | SINGAPORE (dpa) - An Asean taskforce set up to deal with the bird flu threat targeted on Tuesday eight "action areas" including drawing up emergency preparedness plans to respond quickly to new outbreaks. | eng_Latn | 520 |
Some Muslim states not ready to fight bird flu: WHO | Some Muslim countries are ill-prepared to tackle an outbreak of bird flu because of poor resources and public apathy, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said at a meeting of Islamic nations on Wednesday. | Somalia's Islamists reject accusations that they were behind the suicide attack on the government. | eng_Latn | 521 |
HK scientists seek effective cures to avian flu | Hong Kong scientists have been researching a vaccine for the avian flu epidemic, commonly known as bird flu. Doctor John Nichols, a pathologist at Hong Kong University, says | Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead. | eng_Latn | 522 |
Horse flu stops Australian races | Authorities cancelled all horse races in four Australian states on Saturday after the country's first outbreak of equine influenza, which has set off fears of massive financial losses. | ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida's hurricane quartet this year may have helped the state avoid another record season of the potentially lethal West Nile virus. | eng_Latn | 523 |
Hungary import 'link' to UK bird flu | The likely cause of bird flu at a farm in Suffolk was poultry imported from a factory in Hungary, officials say. | A Polish town finds geese rearing a good way of keeping heads above water in an uncertain economic climate. | eng_Latn | 524 |
Thunderstorms in Mexico kill 7 stressed kangaroos | Violent thunderstorms have driven seven distressed kangaroos to death at a Mexican zoo, say veterinarians who are now pampering the remaining three mothers and their babies. | WESLACO - The Rio Grande Valley leads the nation in cervical cancer and overweight children, according to a study released Wednesday. | eng_Latn | 525 |
If this keeps up, they just may be able to swing it | CHICAGO -- This national TV stuff, Terry Francona still has some work to do. "I showed up for the wrong inning," said the Red Sox manager, who had been lined up to do a between-innings interview by Fox yesterday and eventually got on, but just a little later than he thought he would. | BANGKOK - The head of the World Health Organization's global influenza program, Dr, Klaus Stohr, has nominated the bird flu virus in Asia as the most likely cause of the world's next flu pandemic. | eng_Latn | 526 |
Weather hampers China mine rescue | Low temperatures complicate efforts to reach trapped miners after a blast kills at least 203 in China. | N'DJAMENA - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children flew out of the African nation on Friday bound for France where they are due to serve their sentences in jail. | eng_Latn | 527 |
S. Korea kills animals to stop bird flu | A 2-year-old dachshund barked chained to its dingy, wooden house Tuesday, unaware of its fate as South Korea began slaughtering hundreds of dogs, cats and pigs in an effort to stem the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. | Israel declared psychological war on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Monday, saying it would barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their will. | eng_Latn | 528 |
WHO says bird flu virus mutated | A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic. | MULTAN (Pakistan) - A leader of a radical Sunni group blamed yesterday's bombings at a religious gathering on radical Shi'ite Muslims. | eng_Latn | 529 |
China flood death toll rises to 76, as villages submerged | The death toll from nearly a week of heavy rain in southern China rose to 76 on Tuesday, as reports emerged of authorities deliberately flooding some villages in an effort to save bigger cities. | A girl becomes the 11th Thai victim of bird flu this year, dying only a few days after falling ill. | eng_Latn | 530 |
Malaysian bird flu an isolated case | A recent case of bird flu Malaysia appears to be an isolated event, the World Health Organization says. Health officials have confirmed the case, found in the poultry of | A US teenage girl has survivied full-blown rabies she contracted from a bat - the first human ever to do so without vaccination, TechNewsWorld reports. | eng_Latn | 531 |
Epidemic threatens as tsunami toll hits 85,000 | With the death toll soaring to nearly 85,000 in the tsunami havoc, the World Health Organization Wednesday warned that disease in the aftermath of the disaster | A girl becomes the 11th Thai victim of bird flu this year, dying only a few days after falling ill. | eng_Latn | 532 |
Biologists Concerned About Bobwhite Quail | The bobwhite quail, which is disappearing in the Southeast, can make a comeback and add millions of dollars to the rural economy if landowners are willing to make changes in the way they manage their crops and timber to protect the birds' habitat, biologists say. | Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Common Kestrel Tested for H5 Virus in HK" - Xinhua headline] Hong Kong, Feb. | eng_Latn | 533 |
Bird flu silences once bustling HK songbird market | In its heyday, Hong Kong's famous Bird Garden market bustled with shoppers bargaining in Cantonese for exotic birds for sale as pets or for Buddhist rituals. | WASHINGTON - The reddish bacterium to blame for this yearâs shortage of flu vaccine has a colorful history. Until the 1960s, Serratia marcescens was considered harmless - so safe, in fact, that the military | eng_Latn | 534 |
Illness kills more than 100 in Congo | More than 100 people have died in a remote part of Congo, including all those who attended the funerals of two village chiefs, in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever. | Survivors of the storm that ravaged Haiti face a new menace as contaminated water, putrefying bodies and devastated sanitary systems threaten an outbreak of waterborne diseases such as malaria and tetanus, aid workers warned yesterday. | eng_Latn | 535 |
Measles kills 10 in western China | Ten people in China's western Xinjiang province died of measles last month and more than 4,000 were sickened, the local health bureau said Wednesday, in a dramatic rise in the number of cases. | A girl becomes the 11th Thai victim of bird flu this year, dying only a few days after falling ill. | eng_Latn | 536 |
Typhoon Meari kills nine in Japan | moving northeast over large parts of the country including Tokyo, with winds up to 67 miles per hour. Media reports said at least nine had died, but public broadcaster NHK said the toll had reached 11. | I Paesi occidentali cominciano a contare i loro morti nella zona asiatica devastata domenica dal maremoto. La consigliera federale Micheline Calmy-Rey ha annunciato ieri che sono almeno nove i turisti svizzeri deceduti e dodici i feriti. | eng_Latn | 537 |
UN Warns of Disease in Affected Areas | A girl receives tetanus shot from a medic at a relief camp in Nagore, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004. | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 9 -- U.N. troops fought a block-by-block gun battle with gangs in one of this capital's notorious slums Friday, in the force's largest offensive since being deployed here in 2004. | eng_Latn | 538 |
Thailand to Ban Open-Air Fowl Farming in Effort Stop Avian Flu | Thailand plans to ban families from raising fowl in open-air farms in an attempt to stop the spread of the avian influenza virus, the government said, without providing any details on how it will implement the ban. | China is to abolish tuition fees for 150 million rural students in a bid to tackle rural poverty, state media say. | eng_Latn | 539 |
Powerful typhoon targets eastern China | A powerful typhoon targeted China's booming eastern province of Zhejiang and the nation's financial capital, Shanghai, on Tuesday, prompting evacuation of over 1.6 million people as ships were recalled to port. | Pictures of the devastation left by huge earthquake-triggered waves around the Indian Ocean | eng_Latn | 540 |
Several hurt as earthquake rocks Indonesia | Powerful earthquake damages buildings and injures several people in Indonesia but does not trigger a feared tsunami | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian officials on Saturday were testing three people who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, after international health officials warned that the virus appeared to be entrenched in parts of ... | eng_Latn | 541 |
Thailand Confirms 10th Bird Flu Death | BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 28, 2004 - A woman who died earlier this month of bird flu probably got the disease from her daughter, a Thai official said Tuesday, increasing concern the case is the first known human-to-human transmission of the disease. | Weather conditions are set to ease after three people die in severe flooding across England and Wales. | eng_Latn | 542 |
Bird flu most likely to be cause of next pandemic, say WHO ... | BANGKOK - The head of the World Health Organization's global influenza program, Dr, Klaus Stohr, has nominated the bird flu virus in Asia as the most likely cause of the world's next flu pandemic. | By DAVID SMYTH THE WHO may have this week announced two Wembley dates, but rumours abound that they are to give up touring? Don't fret too much. You'll still be able to see Pete Townshend, alive and well and delivering biscuits on the internet. | eng_Latn | 543 |
Chua: Three free from bird flu | KUALA LUMPUR: The three people warded at the Kota Baru Hospital on Thursday are confirmed to be free from bird flu. Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said tests conducted by Institute of Medical Research | A Food and Drug Administration team plans to meet Thursday with the British regulators who abruptly shut down Chiron Corp.'s flu shot plant last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said ... | eng_Latn | 544 |
China confirms bird flu outbreak | China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district of the southern city of Guangzhou. | Hospitals in the Indonesian capital were overwhelmed on Tuesday with hundreds of flood victims suffering from water-borne diseases after the city's worst flooding in five years. | eng_Latn | 545 |
Bird Flu Spread a Worry, But No WHO Travel Warning | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday voiced concern about the spread of bird flu in Vietnam, but said it was not considering warning against travel there as the risk of human infection was low. | Frightened Westerners - many of them longtime residents of this former African economic success story - piled into buses, boats and planes Saturday as a French-run evacuation built, despite government promises to protect the expatriates from a surge of | eng_Latn | 546 |
Riau bans chickens from Malaysia | PEKANBARU, Riau: The province of Riau has banned the entry of chicken and eggs from Malaysia following reports on the spread of bird flu in the neighboring country, a local official said on Wednesday. | Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Common Kestrel Tested for H5 Virus in HK" - Xinhua headline] Hong Kong, Feb. | eng_Latn | 547 |
CO Dangers Continue to Dog Hotels | By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune Jun. 7--Over a 15-year period, carbon monoxide poisoning at hotels, motels and resorts claimed 27 lives nationwide, according to a study by the medical director of LDS Hospital's Hyperbaric Medicine Center. | Manila airport officials prevented a real life version of horror flick "Snakes on a Plane" this week when they stopped more than 130 reptiles, including poisonous cobras, from boarding a flight to Bangkok. | eng_Latn | 548 |
WHO: Bird Flu Outbreak Will Likely Cause New Human Flu Pandemic | The World Health Organization is warning Asian nations that its current struggle with bird flu could lead to the next deadly human flu pandemic across the globe. | US strikes on Iran predicted as tension rises over arms smuggling and nuclear fears. | eng_Latn | 549 |
Threat of Disease Fades, But Agencies on Guard | BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The threat of disease decimating survivors of Asia's tsunami has receded but aid agencies are remaining on their guard, the U.N. said on Friday as doctors reported children dying from pneumonia. | A new outbreak of foot and mouth in Britain was caused by the same strain of virus which was declared "eradicated" only last week, initial test results showed Thursday. | eng_Latn | 550 |
Wild China weather kills 25 | Unusually severe winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday. | Thailand's PM says senior officials' negligance led to the deaths in custody of more than 80 Muslim protesters. | eng_Latn | 551 |
Bird flu flares again in Asia | Bird flu has resurfaced in parts of Asia, with human deaths reported in Indonesia and China and fresh outbreaks plaguing other countries during the winter months when the virus typically flares. | Restrictions over foot-and-mouth are to be eased in some areas from Thursday, Defra says. | eng_Latn | 552 |
Deadly Typhoon Aere Hits Mainland China | China evacuated 320,000 people from the east coast as Typhoon Aere hit the mainland Wednesday, after a mudslide buried a family of four in northern Taiwan pushing the regional death toll to 16. | Hong Kong's worsening air quality is driving down analyst estimates for real estate companies?and could start driving residents away | eng_Latn | 553 |
Bird Flu Believed Endemic in Asia, Spreads to Pigs | BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR - The discovery of a deadly bird flu strain in Malaysia after cases elsewhere in Southeast Asia signaled a major winter outbreak was likely, international health experts said on Friday. | Tsunami News, Search Engines and Blogs Lead Traffic to Humanitarian Sites With relief coming in from all over the world, U.S. citizens are embracing the Internet to support relief efforts for victims of the Asian Tsunami disaster. According to Hitwise, the world’s leading online competitive intelligence service,... | eng_Latn | 554 |
Bird flu transmitted between humans in Thailand | A 26-year-old Thai woman who died of acute pneumonia on 20 September was a âprobableâ case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Thai Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Tuesday. | Elton John has clashed with photographers at Taiwan's Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Airport, calling them "vile pigs.". | eng_Latn | 555 |
Fears mount over Asian bird flu | A Thai woman who died of bird flu may be the first in the latest outbreak to catch it from human contact. | Big Issue founder John Bird scraps plans to run for London mayor next year and will fight poverty instead. | eng_Latn | 556 |
China shares bird flu sample, first time in year-WHO | China has shared human bird flu samples for the first time in more than a year, giving a boost to international efforts to track the deadly H5N1 virus and develop vaccines, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. | The FBI added 10 names to a list of four Chinese nationals it is seeking to question in connection with an unspecified potential threat to the city of Boston, an official with the bureau said on Thursday. | eng_Latn | 557 |
China Rushes to Halt Bird Flu Among Ducks | BEIJING, Sept. 18 -- China scrambled to respond Tuesday to an outbreak of bird flu among ducks in the southern city of Guangzhou. But as officials sought to reassure the public, there were signs that China was reluctant to release details about a possible health threat. | The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing for a potential pandemic with steps that include expanding the ability of employees to work remotely, plus cots, food and water in data centers in the event of a quarantine. | eng_Latn | 558 |
Dengue kills Paraguayan health official | One of Paraguay's top health officials died Friday of dengue fever, the latest casualty in an epidemic that has infected thousands of people. | A woman in charge of a hospital trust where 90 patients died after a superbug outbreak applied to run hospitals in Greater Manchester, it is revealed. | eng_Latn | 559 |
NO HOLIDAY FOR AIDS: Fight for Access Grows in Thailand | (New York, NY, December 24, 2004) AIDS has not taken a holiday. More than 8,000 people around the world die daily from this pandemic. | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday voiced concern about the spread of bird flu in Vietnam, but said it was not considering warning against travel there as the risk of human infection was low. | kor_Hang | 560 |
Sneezing winged death⦠| Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed | A new version of the Santy worm appeared over Christmas, and according to analysis done by some global security firms, may pose a broader threat than its ancestors. | eng_Latn | 561 |
Pig Disease in China Worries the World | FOSHAN, China -- At first, it was just some of the piglets. The mother gave birth to 13, all of them stillborn. Within a few weeks, however, she and other adult pigs in neighboring stalls became feverish and died. By the end of the summer, all but a handful of the village's 300 pigs had succumbed... | Description: NPR's Richard Knox reports on the contamination of flu vaccines manufactured by Chrion. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the contamination was detected early enough | eng_Latn | 562 |
Vietnam reports 29th human bird flu case; 16-year-old in critical ... | A 16-year-old girl from southern Vietnam has become infected with the bird flu strain that killed 32 people earlier this year and devastated the poultry industry across Asia, a doctor said Thursday. | PHUKET, Thailand - A plane carrying foreign tourists crashed yesterday as it tried to land in stormy weather on the resort island of Phuket, killing at least 90 people, including 54 foreign tourists. | eng_Latn | 563 |
Bird flu farm continued exports | The Suffolk farm site were bird flu was found continued to export cooked meat after the outbreak was confirmed. | An investigation is under way to discover how a banned antibotic is found in organic chicken processed in NI. | eng_Latn | 564 |
Two hospitalised in Malaysia amid bird flu outbreak | KUALA LUMPUR : Two people have been hospitalised in Malaysia's northeastern Kelantan state after a suspected new outbreak of the deadly strain of bird flu that has killed 27 people across Asia, officials said on Tuesday. | Powerful earthquakes in Indonesia recall the 2004 tsunami and prompt concerns over whether we're ready for another disaster | eng_Latn | 565 |
Indonesian teenager dies of bird flu | A 16-year-old Indonesian boy from Central Java has died from bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the virus to 104, the health ministry said on Saturday. | Man killed after trapping his foot in a flooded drain, as torrential downpours hit the UK. | eng_Latn | 566 |
Typhoon death toll in Japan rises to 62 | The death toll in Japan from Typhoon Tokage has risen to 62 - making it the deadliest typhoon to hit the country in more than two decades. | A girl becomes the 11th Thai victim of bird flu this year, dying only a few days after falling ill. | eng_Latn | 567 |
WHO concerned over bird flu in Indonesia | The U.N. health agency described the deaths of six Indonesian family members from bird flu as the most important development in the spread of the virus since 2003, saying the size of the cluster and difficulties in determining the source were worrying. | Medical team starts work with survivors in a town half destroyed by the earthquake and floods. In the next 48 hours, two MSF staff will make an air assessment of the northeast part of Aceh, using a helicopter | eng_Latn | 568 |
Bird flu cases 'underestimated' | Scientists say the number of cases of humans being infected with bird flu may have been underestimated. | âOvertreated,â by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve â but is so often misunderstood. | eng_Latn | 569 |
New UK tactics against bird flu | New methods are being employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in areas considered to be at risk. | Eight people arrested over failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the NHS. | eng_Latn | 570 |
Egyptian girl infected with bird flu: WHO | A 10-year-old girl from southern Egypt has been infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, and is in "very critical" condition, a World Health Organization official said on Friday. | PARIS - France's health minister yesterday called for hospitals and police to work more closely after two hospital workers were found slain -- one decapitated and the other with her throat slit -- at a psychiatric facility. | eng_Latn | 571 |
New Vietnam Bird Flu Death Likely H5N1 Type -WHO | A 14-month-old Vietnamese boy who died of bird flu on Sunday was probably infected by the H5N1 strain that has killed 27 people in Asia this year, an official at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. | A red jungle fowl is seen in this undated handout photo. Researchers have assembled the genome sequence of the Red Jungle Fowl, the ancestor of all domestic chickens. | kor_Hang | 572 |
Egypt teenager dies of bird flu | A 17-year-old girl is the latest victim of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza to die of the virus in Egypt, the WHO says. | Police check the home computers of two girls who apparently formed a suicide pact which left one dead. | eng_Latn | 573 |
Fourth bird flu suspect case in Malaysia | ANOTHER person, a veterinarian, has been put under quarantine for suspected bird flu as health officials say three others in a similar situation have yet to show any symptoms of the disease. | Powerful earthquakes in Indonesia recall the 2004 tsunami and prompt concerns over whether we're ready for another disaster | eng_Latn | 574 |
WHO: Bird Flu Likely Source of Next Pandemic | The bird flu virus that rampaged across much of Asia this year is the most likely cause of the next human flu pandemic, which could hit up to 30 percent of the world's people, a top international expert said Thursday. | WASHINGTON - Pilgrim's Pride Corp., the nation's second-largest poultry producer, Monday said profit for its latest quarter nearly tripled as the acquisition of ConAgra Foods' chicken unit and an insurance gain helped its bottom line. | eng_Latn | 575 |
China takes more steps to protect against bird flu | BEIJING - China has drastically stepped up vigilance against bird flu in regions along the border with Vietnam, where a series of outbreaks have recently been reported. | Environmental authorities set up Wednesday a temporary restriction zone around a farm in west central England because of a new suspected case of foot and mouth disease. | eng_Latn | 576 |
Three tested for bird flu discharged from Malaysian hospital | KUALA LUMPUR : Three Malaysians who fell ill in a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain have been discharged from a hospital after tests showed no sign of the virus, a senior official said. | Manila airport officials prevented a real life version of horror flick "Snakes on a Plane" this week when they stopped more than 130 reptiles, including poisonous cobras, from boarding a flight to Bangkok. | eng_Latn | 577 |
This new dome continued to grow throughout 2005 and into 2006 . | This new dome grew throughout 2005 and into 2006 . | In January 1925 , doctors realized that a diphtheria epidemic was likely to sweep through Nome 's young people . | eng_Latn | 578 |
The cases include 20 deaths, and 102 infection cases .
Seventy patients are hospitalized with the virus .
The new strain wasn't known until three weeks ago .
International experts in China to monitor the H7N9 strain . | (CNN) -- The number of bird flu cases in China jumped Sunday to 102, including 20 deaths, the World Health Organization announced. Seventy patients remain hospitalized with the virus. The WHO said there is still no evidence of human-to-human transmission. So far the virus has mainly affected eastern China, with 11 deat... | (CNN) -- Typhoon Haikui slammed into the east coast of China on Wednesday morning, pummeling the area around the business metropolis of Shanghai with heavy wind and rain. The storm's winds were at "severe typhoon" strength when it made landfall in the province of Zhejiang, about 225 kilometers (140 miles) south of Shan... | eng_Latn | 579 |
Mexico City, Mexico, flight bound for Seattle, Washington, diverted due to heavy fog .
Flight returns to Mexico after customs agents can't process all passengers .
Representatives with Aeromexico plan to investigate situation . | (CNN) -- Some passengers on a diverted Aeromexico flight finally reached their destination in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday after spending 16 hours in limbo. The plane was scheduled to fly from Mexico City, Mexico, to Seattle on Tuesday, but was diverted to Portland, Oregon, because of thick fog, said Kara Simonds,... | (CNN) -- Typhoon Megi marched toward southern China on Wednesday after leaving 11 people dead in the Philippines, prompting Chinese authorities to close train services in the region, state media said. Trains from Sanya to other provinces were canceled until Thursday, while trains heading from other provinces to Sanya w... | eng_Latn | 580 |
NEW: Xinhua says 3,736 cases in kids in city of Fuyang, 4,529 in Anhui province .
NEW: Province south of Beijing upgrades health emergency to allow quarantines .
NEW: Virus can cause poliolike paralysis; death toll at 22 .
Outbreak worries Chinese officials preparing for Beijing Olympics . | BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China's Health Ministry strengthened surveillance and dispatched specialists to the eastern Anhui province as the death toll from a virulent virus climbed to 22, the Xinhua News Agency reported. A girl suffering from an Enterovirus 71 infection receives treatment this week in a Fuyang, China, ho... | (CNN) -- Typhoon Haikui slammed into the east coast of China on Wednesday morning, pummeling the area around the business metropolis of Shanghai with heavy wind and rain. The storm's winds were at "severe typhoon" strength when it made landfall in the province of Zhejiang, about 225 kilometers (140 miles) south of Shan... | eng_Latn | 581 |
NEW: The storm knocks out power in almost 200,000 households in South Korea .
NEW: More than 100 flights are canceled and about 20 roads are closed .
Four Chinese fisherman are found dead and 17 have been rescued .
The search is on for another 12 fishermen still missing . | Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Four Chinese fishermen died and 12 were missing in stormy waters off South Korea's Jeju Island on Tuesday as Typhoon Bolaven brought howling winds and torrential rain to the Korean Peninsula. Maritime police on Jeju Island, situated off the southern tip of the South Korean mainland, said tha... | LONDON (CNN) -- The search for missing workers in a flooded Wales coal mine ended tragically Friday as rescuers discovered the fourth and final man's body, South Wales police said. Authorities identified the men as Phillip Hill, 45, from Neath; and Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, and Garry Jenkins, 39, all from ... | eng_Latn | 582 |
Studies of 130 confirmed cases of H7N9 found one-in-three-death rate .
Compares with H5N1 death rate of around 70 per cent .
Death rate of 2009 swine flu epidemic was just one per cent .
Virus has shown resistance to Tamiflu in some sufferers . | By . Helen Collis . More than a third of patients infected with a new strain of bird flu died after being admitted to the hospital earlier this year, Chinese researchers report in a new study. Since the new H7N9 bird flu first broke out in China in late March, the strain has infected more than 130 people and killed 37.... | Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt's general prosecutor on Friday ordered a police officer to submit to questioning regarding his suspected role in shooting protesters in the eyes during recent clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square. "The Ministry of Interior is preoccupied by the latest events, but he will come in for questioning soon," ... | eng_Latn | 583 |
April 17 blast in Texas town killed 15 people .
Rick Perry lauds the state appeal for a disaster declaration .
FEMA denied a request in June for a "major disaster" area . | (CNN) -- The Obama administration has issued a disaster declaration for the Texas town hit by fertilizer plant blasts in April. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Friday aid for the area affected by the tragedy in the town of West. Federal funding will supplement state and local recovery efforts "for eme... | By . Ted Thornhill . UPDATED: . 08:19 EST, 8 February 2012 . H5N1 warning: Professor Paul Keim . Details of secret experiments by scientists who have created the most deadly form of bird flu in the lab will inevitably be leaked - potentially into the hands of terrorists - an expert has warned. A furore erupted in Decem... | eng_Latn | 584 |
Driver Huang Lingyong, 31, 'braked hard' when he saw the bird walk out .
Heard a 'sickening thud' and then went to see the bird wedged in the car .
Accident happened near industrial park in Xinfeng county, south China .
Car dealer said the bumper was a cheap copy and not original part . | By . Wills Robinson . A Chinese car that collided head-on with a chicken came out worst in the encounter. The bird miraculously survived the encounter while the Japanese-made car was left with a large hole in the bumper. The accident happened near an industrial park in Xinfeng county in south China’s Jiangxi province. ... | (CNN) -- The number of bird flu cases in China jumped Sunday to 102, including 20 deaths, the World Health Organization announced. Seventy patients remain hospitalized with the virus. The WHO said there is still no evidence of human-to-human transmission. So far the virus has mainly affected eastern China, with 11 deat... | eng_Latn | 585 |
Follows outbreak of H5N1 virus which can be deadly in humans .
Chickens culled and eggs buried in pits in bid to contain virus .
Virus has caused deaths of nearly 400 people worldwide since 2006 . | Thousands of chickens and other poultry have been culled following the outbreak of a highly contagious strain of bird flu in India. Officials ordered 250,000 birds to be slaughtered in Telangana after cases of the H5N1 virus were identified, which can be deadly in humans. The virus caused the deaths of nearly 400 peopl... | (CNN) -- Rescuers in China had pulled a total of 31 bodies from the wreckage from a landslide the size of a small town that rushed down a mountain earlier in the week. State-run CCTV reported on Friday that the number of people missing in and around the city of Dujiangyan was 166, up from 107 the previous day. The floo... | eng_Latn | 586 |
NEW: Pig carcasses test positive for porcine circovirus .
More than 2,800 dead pigs found floating in Shanghai river .
Authorities say local tap water still safe to drink but residents worried .
Reports suggests that more than 10,000 pigs died in a neighboring province earlier this year . | Hong Kong (CNN) -- At least 2,800 dead pigs have been fished from a Shanghai river since Friday, but authorities insist that tap water in the city is still safe to drink. State news agency Xinhua said labels tagged to the pigs' ears indicated they came from the upper waters of the Huangpu River, which flows through the... | Beijing, China (CNN) -- The death toll from the devastating mudslide in China's northwestern Gansu province rose slightly to 1,254 Monday, a day after the country paused for three minutes in memory of those who perished. Another 490 people are still missing a week after torrential rains triggered the mudslides on July ... | eng_Latn | 587 |
2014 has been a major year for new skyscrapers, but what is in the pipeline for 2015?
Major new projects will be completed in China, the UAE, Russia and the U.S.
Fast developing cities are at the forefront of some of the most ambitious architectural projects . | 2014 has been a big year for towering new skyscrapers -- literally. One World Trade Center became the biggest skyscraper in the United States when construction was completed in early November while ground was broken on the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which will rise one kilometer skywards to become the world... | By . Kieran Corcoran . A wall collapsed onto a house full of of Chinese workers, killing 18 of them and injuring three more. The workers, from the recycling plant in Qingdao, eastern China, had taken shelter in the house to escape heavy rain, according to state media. But the storm was so fierce that it waterlogged the... | eng_Latn | 588 |
Immunization rates are declining in parts of Western countries .
Many U.S. measles cases in 2014 are linked to travelers to the Philippines .
The Philippines, which is coping with measles after Typhoon Haiyan, had over 50,000 cases in 2014 . | (CNN)Measles this year has hit the most disparate places: camps for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria, who've had to flee from Boko Haram, and Disneyland in California. The differences of the two settings are stark. In one, people are fighting for survival and have difficulty getting health care; the oth... | Buried neck deep in filthy, ash covered debris, Filipino children sift through the charred debris from an enormous fire that razed a shanty town in Malabon City. With just weeks to go to Christmas, hundreds of people lost everything when their homes were destroyed by the wind whipped blaze. Many were made with light ma... | eng_Latn | 589 |
Typhoon Usagi damaged hundreds of houses in Guangdong province .
More than 200,000 people had to be relocated because of the storm .
Hong Kong, which had been in its path, avoided a severe impact .
Airlines are scrambling to deal with hundreds of canceled flights . | (CNN) -- At least 25 people have died after Typhoon Usagi slammed into the coast of southern China, state media reported Monday. Bringing strong winds and heavy rain, Usagi forced the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people, the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closing of a major shipping lane. "Usagi ... | (CNN)The passengers and crew aboard AirAsia Flight QZ8501 expected to land in Singapore at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, after a flight of just over two hours. They departed Juanda International Airport in Indonesia's East Java early that morning, but amid increasingly bad weather one of the pilots requested to deviate from the... | eng_Latn | 590 |
Court says the accused led a terrorist group that planned and executed the attack .
The train station attack shook the country and state media labeled it "China's 9/11" | Four people were convicted Friday of plotting a knife attack that killed 31 people at a railway station in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming. A court in the city said in an online statement the accused led a terrorist group that planned and executed the attack, which wounded 141 people on March 1. Three were sen... | Hong Kong (CNN) -- The death of a sixth patient from a SARS-like virus comes on the week that marks 10 years since the deadly outbreak hit Hong Kong. Reports of the new virus' spread remind me of a phone call I received a decade ago: "Kevin, we're hearing that there might be a case of SARS on Lamma," said my boss, refe... | eng_Latn | 591 |
NEW: More than 3,000 flights delayed and almost 200 canceled .
Reporter measures line more than a mile long at Midway airport .
About 46 million people were expected to travel for Thanksgiving, AAA says .
90% of travelers were expected to go by road . | (CNN) -- For many fliers Sunday, it was holiday travel woes, round two. As of 6:30 p.m. ET, more than 3,000 U.S. flights were delayed and more than 190 were canceled, according to FlightAware.com. The line for security screening at Chicago Midway International Airport on Sunday morning was so long that reporter Denise ... | Beijing, China (CNN) -- Family members of 19 Chinese tourists, who went missing in Taiwan after Typhoon Megi triggered rock slides, are headed to the island, China's state media said Monday. The tourists from Zhuhai city in southern China went missing about 10 p.m. Thursday. Two other people -- a Taiwanese bus driver a... | eng_Latn | 592 |
Public Health England said cases have risen by 58% from 2012 to 2013 .
Last year 541 cases were reported in people returning from dengue-affected countries compared to 343 cases in 2012 .
Most cases reported in people returning from India and Thailand but marked increase in cases associated with Barbados also noted . | By . Lizzie Parry . Health experts have today warned of a rising tide of dengue fever cases in England, as infected travellers jumped 60 per cent in a year. More people are returning from infected areas of the world, bringing the viral illness home with them. Public Health England (PHE) said cases soared by 58 per cent... | (CNN) -- Search crews in Indonesia have suspended efforts to locate two tourists, still missing two and half days after the tourist boat they were traveling in sank. The head of the rescue mission says the search will resume on Tuesday morning. Officials say 23 other passengers and crew were rescued, pulled from the wa... | eng_Latn | 593 |
130 new cases were identified during a 3-day lockdown in Sierra Leone .
More than 75% of the targeted 1.5 million households were contacted .
At least 2,803 people have died from Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone . | (CNN) -- One hundred thirty new cases of Ebola were identified during a three-day lockdown in Sierra Leone, Stephen Gaojia, the country's head of emergency operations, said Monday. Officials are awaiting tests on another 39 potential cases, he said. During the lockdown from Friday through Sunday, no one was allowed to ... | Beijing, China (CNN) -- Family members of 19 Chinese tourists, who went missing in Taiwan after Typhoon Megi triggered rock slides, are headed to the island, China's state media said Monday. The tourists from Zhuhai city in southern China went missing about 10 p.m. Thursday. Two other people -- a Taiwanese bus driver a... | eng_Latn | 594 |
A decade ago on February 21, the first victim of SARS came to Hong Kong .
Disease quickly spread around the world, killing 774 people by July 2003 .
There were 8,096 confirmed cases of SARS in 30 nations, according to WHO .
The city of Hong Kong was transformed as the epidemic unraveled in the city . | Hong Kong (CNN) -- The death of a sixth patient from a SARS-like virus comes on the week that marks 10 years since the deadly outbreak hit Hong Kong. Reports of the new virus' spread remind me of a phone call I received a decade ago: "Kevin, we're hearing that there might be a case of SARS on Lamma," said my boss, refe... | (CNN) -- At least 510 people were killed in Caracas, Venezuela, in December, giving support to a recent report that called the city the murder capital of the world. A chalk message reads No More Murders as a student protests killings in Caracas in this file photo. It's against that backdrop that the country's ministe... | eng_Latn | 595 |
Flu season is hitting its peak in the United States .
Cases of swine flu, or H1N1, are rapidly increasing with the South hardest hit .
Texas has thus far borne the brunt of cases with still weeks to go of the normal flu season . | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 12:31 EST, 8 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 14:49 EST, 8 January 2014 . A 13-year-old Texas girl has died of influenza, taking this season's swine flu death toll to 17 in Dallas County alone. Lydia Christine Kizziar of Carrollton was just a seventh grader when she passed away Satu... | (CNN) -- Typhoon Haikui slammed into the east coast of China on Wednesday morning, pummeling the area around the business metropolis of Shanghai with heavy wind and rain. The storm's winds were at "severe typhoon" strength when it made landfall in the province of Zhejiang, about 225 kilometers (140 miles) south of Shan... | eng_Latn | 596 |
Two-year-old boy one of four children pulled from the wreckage after surviving the horror crash on Wednesday .
TransAsia GE235 passenger plane with 58 people on board plunged into Keeling River in capital city Taipei .
At least 25 people have been confirmed dead, according to Taiwanese Civil Aviation Authority, and 18 ... | A two-year-old boy was one of four children who miraculously survived a terrifying place crash in Taiwan, after the aircraft clipped a motorway overpass and crashed into a river, . So far 15 survivors have been pulled from the wreckage of the plane, as more than 1,000 rescue personnel scramble to try and save people tr... | (CNN) -- The number of bird flu cases in China jumped Sunday to 102, including 20 deaths, the World Health Organization announced. Seventy patients remain hospitalized with the virus. The WHO said there is still no evidence of human-to-human transmission. So far the virus has mainly affected eastern China, with 11 deat... | eng_Latn | 597 |
Seven year-old victim's parents are in the poultry business .
She is the first case outside eastern China .
The death toll is at 11 people with 37 taken ill .
Neighbouring Jiangsu province on Saturday also confirmed two more cases .
Officials in an area of Zhejiang province have begun culling chickens .
WHO says there ... | By . Olivia Williams . PUBLISHED: . 12:49 EST, 13 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:50 EST, 13 April 2013 . A seven-year-old girl has become Beijing's first case of a new bird flu strain that has killed 11 people. In eastern China 37 others have fallen ill, but this is the first case showing a spread to the north of the c... | (CNN)Up to 100 people are feared missing after two boats collided on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization said Saturday. The collision happened Thursday morning but news of the disaster is only just emerging. Eugene Kabambi, a WHO spokesman in the country's capital, Kin... | eng_Latn | 598 |
Heavy rains and severe flooding in central Vietnam led to the deaths of 20 people .
Over 30 inches of rain in one day triggered heavy flooding .
Over 150,000 homes were submerged .
Two weeks earlier, 66 people in region died after record-setting rains and subsequent flooding . | (CNN) -- At least 20 people have died in severe flooding in Vietnam, official media reported Monday. But the death toll varied as the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said the death toll is 30 as of Sunday, sourcing a government flood committee. Floods damaged crops and hindered transportation leaving passengers str... | CNN -- The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe is now approaching 3,000, the World Health Organization says. Two men rest in a cholera rehydration tent on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border in December. Latest, WHO statistics show 2,971 deaths since the outbreak began in August, with 56,123 cases reported. The epidemic ... | eng_Latn | 599 |
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