Thousands of Britons sickened by virus
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Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years. Doctors estimate that hundreds of thousands of people may be affected by norovirus in the coming days. Dozens of hospital wards across the country have already been closed to try to stop the virus' spread.
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HONG KONG : 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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Hundreds of people in Peru become sick after visiting the crash area of what is said to be a meteorite.
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World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that an outbreak of bird flu mixed with a human influenza virus could kill millions of people across the globe that had the potential to be worse than the SARS virus.
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Two million people struck down with winter vomiting virus in worst outbreak in five years, say doctors
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Health officials from all over Britain take part in a trial to see how the country would react to a flu pandemic.
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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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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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HUNDREDS of patients of Addenbrooke&#39;s Hospital have been warned they may have come into contact with the human form of &quot;mad cow disease&quot;.
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There are 14,300 adults living in the UK who are unaware that they are carrying the HIV/Aids virus, according to the shock findings of a Health Protection Agency (HPA) report.
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The number of people with the severe liver disease hepatitis C in England has soared, figures show.
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Experts at Sophos report that the virus is currently accounting for 75% of all virus reports at Sophos&#39;s global network of monitoring stations in the last 24 hours.
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THOUSANDS of people, including 120 in Scotland, have been warned they may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through contaminated blood products.
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Britain&#39;s Health Protection Agency reports the number of HIV infections has skyrocketed, largely due to immigrants, Sky News said Thursday.
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The UK is drawing up plans to deal with a possible outbreak of blu flu.
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Health officials have warned of a growing risk of disease from the filthy floodwaters inundating the Indonesian capital, where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes.
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Six thousand people are to be told they may have been exposed to the human form of mad cow disease through blood products, the government says.