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MONTREAL -- An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec yesterday as an &quot;epidemic&quot; that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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BRITAIN is &quot;in the grip of a serious HIV epidemic&quot; as the number of people suffering from the infection continues to soar, new figures showed today.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has  raised the specter of human-to-human transmission of deadly  avian influenza following confirmation that two Vietnamese  brothers had contracted the virus and one had died.
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Tuberculosis, one of the oldest known infectious diseases, is now the leading cause of death for people with AIDS, causing concern that the deadly combination could become a health crisis in both the United States and abroad.
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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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Authorities in Singapore have expressed concern about the rising death toll from the tropical disease melioidosis. Twenty-three of the 57 people diagnosed with the soil-born disease from January to July died, health officials said.
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BANGKOK Officials in Thailand announced Monday that a 32-year-old woman had been hospitalized with avian influenza and that two family members of the sick person had already died of a flulike illness, raising the possibility that these deaths might
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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NEW YORK  - Among people with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection caught in the general community (rather than in hospital), more than 20 percent were dead within a year, according to new research findings.
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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.
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â¢ In 1981, there were 422 AIDS cases and 159 deaths in the United States. In 2001, there were 506,154 cases and 459,518 deaths. Today, 850,000 to 950,000 Americans are living with HIV.
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Hepatitis C among young drug users in London is reaching epidemic levels while HIV cases are &quot;worryingly high&quot;, researchers have warned.
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The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the region around the Indian Ocean last week may be driven much higher by disease, American health experts say.
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AIDS. It killed roughly 3 million people last year, most of them poor, and most of them in Africa. Between 34 and 42 million people are living with HIV.
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Outbreaks of polio in India and Africa are spreading rapidly, and experts warn that new infections could lead to an epidemic of international scale. (Part two of a three-part series on the resurgence of diseases once thought wiped out.)
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Montreal - A bacterial infection is to blame for the death of about 600 people hospitalised in Montreal between April 2003 and April 2004, a scientist said.
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Thailand declared war on bird flu yesterday as Asia&#39;s death toll in the epidemic rose to 30. The announcement came as Vietnam confirmed another fatality, amid concern that the virus had passed from human to human.