Infection deaths termed &#39;epidemic&#39;
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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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Highly populated countries like India, China and Russia are at a key point in their fight against AIDS which could determine whether they have limited outbreaks or a large epidemic which could have a major effect on how the world treats the disease
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The MRSA superbug has played a part in 116 deaths in Northern Ireland in the past seven years, figures have shown. Nearly three quarters of those deaths occurred in the over-75 age group.
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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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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the &quot;bird flu&quot; that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.
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Vietnam confirmed a new bird flu death to bring Asia&#39;s human toll to 30 yesterday, while Thailand rued its flawed efforts to control the epidemic after reporting its first likely case of the virus jumping from one person to another.
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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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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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NAIROBI  - Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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This was the Big One, a deadly flu epidemic. But fortunately it was a fake. So when U.S. health officials made some missteps in their largest-ever drill to prepare for a national outbreak of a deadly new flu, no one died.
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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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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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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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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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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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.