Southeast Asia battles dengue surge
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Southeast Asian nations are battling a surge in dengue cases, amid signs that climate change could make 2007 the worst year on record for a disease that often gets less attention than some higher-profile health risks.
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Dengue fever has killed 182 Cambodians so far this year and the crisis will continue to worsen unless concerted community action is taken, the government and World Health Organisation said on Saturday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Masked workers with mosquito-killing spray guns began moving through refugee camps yesterday in tsunami-battered Aceh Province, trying to prevent an outbreak of malaria. Indonesia, meanwhile, said it is pursuing a permanent truce with rebels in the area, the worst-hit by the disaster.
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The hospitals in Banda Aceh, Indonesia are overflowing with the wounded, sick and homeless. Doctors vow they can make room when necessary, but teeming wards and backlogged operating tables have restricted their efforts.
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Health officials in the Indian capital launch a drive against dengue fever after 11 deaths in two weeks.
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Cases of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya   virus in people returning to Britain from islands in the Indian   Ocean have risen dramatically, public health experts said on   Wednesday.
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Dengue fever killed 407 people in Cambodia last year, the highest number of fatalities in nearly a decade, a health official said Friday. Most of those who died from the disease were children, said Ngan Chantha, director of the National Anti-Dengue Fever Program.
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SOUTHEAST Asia must unite to combat the spread of a deadly bird flu virus which has the potential to become the next human influenza pandemic, global health experts warned here Monday.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Doctors were battling on Monday to save the life of former Indonesian President Suharto, who remains critically ill, while another of Southeast Asia's long-serving leaders was due to visit his bedside.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Tsunami-stricken  Indonesia has escaped major disease outbreaks so far but  hundreds of thousands of people are at high risk due to poor  conditions in refugee camps, the World Health Organization said  Monday.
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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave of misery across Indian Ocean coastal
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By MICHAEL CASEY YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Asia's rapid economic expansion has turned its skies into some of world's most polluted and the region must do more to fight a scourge that is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually, delegates told a clean air conference Wednesday.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asia must unite to combat the spread of a deadly bird flu virus, which has the potential
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Singapore and its Southeast Asian neighbors are in the midst of a new epidemic of dengue that is on course to claim more victims regionally than the last epidemic, in 2005.
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The confirmed death toll in Asia, after Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake and tsunamis, has surged past 125,000. Indonesia which bore the brunt of the catastrophe, has updated its toll to almost 80,000 with entire coastal villages washed away.
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Kuala Lumpur (VNA) - Southeast Asian countries have endorsed a plan to combat bird flu that aims to prevent the disease from spreading and reduce its risk for human pandemic after a two-day meeting in Singapore .