Post-Katrina New Orleans death rate shoots up
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Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly  50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane  Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public  health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
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Strikers at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., said they were demanding better wages and benefits to make up for sharp post-Katrina price increases.
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When ozone goes up in cities, even for short periods at levels below current regulatory standards, so does the death rate, according to an article in Wednesday&#39;s Journal
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Workers dug new mass graves for corpses that still littered this flood-ravaged city Thursday as the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and residents grew increasingly agitated from a lack of food and drinkable water.    Health workers feared an epidemic from the unburied bodies, raw sewage in drinking water and infections from injuries...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haiti's death toll from  last month's devastating flooding rose to more than 3,000 on  Tuesday, according to government officials who released what  they believe is the final death tally.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- The death toll in Haiti in the wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne has reached 138 and is still climbing. With floodwaters receding, rescuers have been recovering bodies in Gonaives, Haiti&#39;s third largest city.
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Thousands of people in Louisiana and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are struggling to rebuild their lives. In some areas, the population and economy are growing, but in others, serious issues remain such as battered infrastructure and violent crime.
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The confirmed death toll from the Indian Ocean earthquake continues to rise, more than a week after the disaster.
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Breakfasting on beignets in the French Quarter on a Sunday morning, Dorothy Washington was a tourism official's dream &#151; she saw none of the scars that still mark most of New Orleans 11 months after Hurricane Katrina and she had heard nothing about six weekend shooting deaths.
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Along the coast from Texas to Maine, insurance costs are doubling or tripling as part of continuing fallout from Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans will mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Wednesday with candle light vigils, prayer services and a new memorial to the 1,500 or so people who died in her floodwaters and fury.
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The death toll from floods unleashed by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose sharply to nearly 2,000 people, with many still missing, as officials said they found hundreds more bodies in Haiti's devastated northwestern region.
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Haiti's death toll from last month's floods caused by tropical storm Jeanne rises to nearly 2,000, officials say.
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The death toll from a powerful typhoon that lashed the northern Philippines climbed to at least 24 on Monday after rescue officials retrieved more bodies from ravaged areas.
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Louisiana raised its Hurricane Katrina death toll by 281 Friday to 1,577 after including more out-of-state evacuees whose deaths were deemed related to the storm or its grueling aftermath.
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The death rate from injury in the United States is rising this decade after declining since the late 1970s, spurred by increases in accidental poisonings and suicides, health officials said on Thursday.
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The city is showing signs of rebirth nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, but a lack of health care and other services and a dearth of affordable housing could stymie a full recovery, according to a study released Wednesday.