Australia probes report that suspect polio virus released to the ...
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SYDNEY - Australian authorities moved Saturday to reassure people vaccinated against polio in the 1950s and 1960s after a report that a contaminated vaccine linked to cancer was issued at that time.
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South Africa said on Tuesday it had ordered an inquiry following reports that participants in the clinical trial of a microbicide gel to help prevent HIV infection among women had instead contracted the virus.
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HONG KONG: Health authorities in Hong Kong are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a hospital that has infected 28 children.
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A virus found in healthy Australian honey bees may be playing a role in the collapse of honey bee colonies across the United States, researchers reported Thursday.
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British government sources have confirmed a suspected case of foot and mouth disease on a farm in southern England, BBC and Sky television reported on Wednesday.
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GENEVA -- The UN health agency yesterday sought to ease fears of a major polio outbreak in Saudi Arabia fueled by Islamic pilgrims from African nations that are still in the grip of the disease.
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A suspected new case of foot-and-mouth is investigated in Hampshire.
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Health authorities in Hong Kong are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a hospital that has infected 28 children.
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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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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Scientists are investigating the cause of the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak at two farms in Surrey.
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THE Federal Government is investigating claims two Australians have been kidnapped in Iraq and will be killed if Australia doesn&#39;t pull out of the war zone in 24 hours.
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Polio was stopped in its tracks, but now we must make sure the price was not too high. Many Australians will remember the crippling disease poliomyelitis that scourged Australia in the middle of last century.
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Health experts had identified a mystery illness that has infected 34 children in a Hong Kong hospital as a common respiratory virus, the government said Friday.
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A case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed at a British farm Wednesday, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. Officials did not immediately confirm the report.
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Health authorities were investigating Friday a suspected new case of foot-and-mouth disease in a control zone and ordered cattle that showed symptoms of the virus slaughtered.
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Fairfax County health officials said an elderly man has died of a suspected case of West Nile virus. If additional tests confirm the diagnosis, his death will be the first reported fatality from the virus in Virginia this year.