More than 100 Russian children hospitalized with food poisoning
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More than 100 children have been hospitalized with food poisoning in Russia's southern republic of North Ossetia, health officials said.
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Every week around 100 Filipino children go blind, mostly due to preventable diseases, the health department has said.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach and sickened at least 192 people.
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Families of hundreds of ill children say the majority of attention is being focused on the fate of nurses blamed for the infections.
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Â· 200 British suspects among 700 worldwide Â· 31 children rescued from abuse
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MOSCOW - At least 100 people were killed and more than 600 injured after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia on Friday where armed militants held hostages for the past three days.
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Six primary school children have died in northern China from apparent food poisoning, but police are not ruling out criminal intent, state press reported.
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The number of people stricken with lead poisoning by an unregulated smelting plant in northwestern China has risen to 870, including over 300 children, state press said.
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As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than 18 cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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Seventeen people who ate from the same booth at the Taste of Chicago food festival last week became ill, at least five of them with salmonella poisoning and three who were hospitalized, the health department said.
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Two more children have come down with fever and symptoms of respiratory infections in a hospital where an outbreak of flu has claimed one life and stricken another 33.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   86-year-old woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E.   coli infections raised to three the number of deaths from an   outbreak traced to fresh spinach, state health officials said   on Friday.
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. Ninety-five bodies have been identified, but one official said the death toll could far exceed 150...
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More than 7,000 children get rushed to emergency rooms each year after suffering adverse reactions to cough and cold medicines, according to the first national estimate of the risks posed by the widely used remedies.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Hundreds of children, their parents, and teachers died in the bloody culmination of a 52-hour siege that began when heavily armed Muslim guerrillas stormed their school Wednesday and ended in hours of battle with Russian troops Friday.
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[World News]: Moscow, Oct 27 : Three senior Russian officials have been charged with negligence in connection with last month&#39;s Beslan school crisis that left at least 350 people, mostly children, dead.
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An outbreak of salmonella food  poisoning linked to peanut butter has widened to 329 people in  41 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  reported on Thursday.