Mystery disease not Sars
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Hong Kong - Hong Kong health chiefs ruled out on Sunday Sars or bird flu in the death of a youngster among 24 hospital patients who suddenly went down with a mystery respiratory complaint.
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THE personal physician to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ruled out leukaemia as the cause of the illness that saw him collapse yesterday.
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A suspected new case of foot-and-mouth is investigated in Hampshire.
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The second outbreak of foot-and-mouth virus this year did not involve a separate breach in biosecurity.
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.
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If SARS comes back to haunt the world again, a team of Belgian scientists may have discovered a new weapon to use against it. Chloroquine, a drug used to fight malaria since World War II, has been found to
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There is global dissemination  of a type of gonorrhea that lacks an enzyme used by many  commercial kits to confirm a diagnosis of infection,  investigators report.
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Dead swallows discovered on an island in the disputed Spratly chain tested negative for bird flu Saturday, Malaysian authorities said, easing fears that the disease was spreading beyond a quarantined northern state.
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The unexpected discovery of a deadly  bird flu strain in Malaysia after summer cases elsewhere in  Southeast Asia indicated a major winter outbreak was likely,  international health experts said on Friday.
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Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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BANGKOKâThailand said yesterday it had found its first known probable case of a human being infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
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SARS is expected to emerge in China  again this winter, but an epidemic is unlikely as the world's  most populous country is better prepared this time round,  health officials say.
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The species found in the mountains of Indonesia may be new to science, but not to Sherlock Holmes.
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A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic.
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they may have found a series of chemicals that could counter the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and other viruses.
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Two rare and related diseases leave their sufferers with no fingerprints&#151;now researchers may have cracked the genetic code behind the inherited ailments.
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause of diseases ranging