Mystery Illness Stalks World's Rarest Penguin
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A mystery disease is killing off yellow-eyed penguin chicks in New Zealand in a fresh blow to efforts to conserve the world's rarest member of the penguin family, a conservation group said on Thursday.
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Scientists are investigating whether global warming is linked to declining penguin populations on South Africa's Prince Edward Islands and Antarctica.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.
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A THAI woman was yesterday diagnosed with bird flu after her sister and niece died with symptoms of the virus, raising the possibility that the illness had passed from human-to-human for the first time.
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A bird species new to science has been found by researchers on a remote island in the northern Philippines.
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A mystery illness in Panama claimed the life of another victim on Thursday, bringing to 18 the number of people who have died from it and baffled health officials said poison could be involved.
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IT is one of only two complete specimens ever known to be found - and it is causing a stir. The 7m-long Longman&#39;s beaked whale, which washed up on a beach at Byron Bay, was last seen in Australia in 1882.
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SCIENTISTS have discovered a new species of flightless bird on a remote island in the Philippines, the conservation group BirdLife International said yesterday.
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Health experts have identified a mystery illness that has infected 34 children in a Hong Kong hospital as a common respiratory virus.
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A rare case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu being passed between humans is reported by Chinese officials.
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One of Earth's rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po'ouli.
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The body of a whale resembling a giant dolphin that washed up on an eastern Australian beach has intrigued local scientists, who agreed Wednesday that it is rare but are not sure just how rare.
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While every human death from bird flu commands widespread attention, some experts are urging the world not to forget killer diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which claim millions of lives each year.
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Theresa Torres, Reporter. Sharing its neighborsâ fears of a bird-flu pandeÂ­mic after the first probable case of human-to-human infection was reported in Thailand, the Philippine government on Wednes
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The search for the first wild bird carrying a deadly flu virus to North America is under way on a lonely stretch of coastal salt marsh on the outskirts of Alaska&#039;s largest city.
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A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds Friday, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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(Kingston-WABC, October 14, 2004) - New York state health officials are investigating an extremely rare and deadly brain disease. Want your Alerts via Email?