China virus outbreak kills third child
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A viral disease that has broken out in eastern China's Shandong province has killed a third child, Xinhua said on Thursday, raising doubts over earlier claims that the epidemic may have been contained.
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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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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Local health officials on Thursday confirmed a third West Nile virus death in Los Angeles County, bringing the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to six in the western US state of California.
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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.
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One man died of suspected bird flu in Vietnam over the weekend and three people were hospitalized as news reports showed the virus has spread across the entire country.
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At least five people are dead and three are missing after China's east coast is hit by Typhoon Wipha.
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Hand, foot and mouth disease, which in rare cases can be fatal, has infected at least 121 children in north China's Inner Mongolia in recent days, Xinhua news agency said.
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A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl who battled  bird flu for more than two weeks has died, the country's third  casualty in 10 days from the disease that killed dozens and  devastated Southeast Asia's poultry industry last year.
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MALAYSIA announced today its second outbreak of deadly bird flu in three weeks, near a northern village close to the border with Thailand where the disease was first detected.
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An 18-year-old girl has died of bird flu  in southern Vietnam and the first confirmed human infection in  the country's north has raised concerns about possible  human-to-human transmission of the virus.
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Three people have died after an outbreak of cholera in a suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
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KUALA LUMPUR (dpa) - Malaysia announced Tuesday that it has detected three new outbreaks of the deadly avian influenza, one of which is outside the quarantine zone of the first area hit by the virus.
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Malaysia announced on Monday its second outbreak of deadly bird flu in three weeks, near a northern village close to the border with Thailand where the disease was first detected.
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City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them.
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Hand, foot and mouth disease, which in  rare cases can be fatal, has infected at least 121 children in  north China&#39;s Inner Mongolia in recent days, Xinhua news agency  said.
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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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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.