Bug outbreak linked to 16 deaths
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Sixteen hospital deaths in the Northern Trust area are linked to an outbreak of the superbug C. difficile.
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The World Health Organization said on  Saturday it was investigating &quot;an outbreak of an unknown  illness with a high mortality rate&quot; in the Democratic Republic  of the Congo.
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BUENOS AIRES, March 7 -- Recent heavy rains in South America have killed dozens of people, wiped out thousands of homes and triggered outbreaks of dengue fever in several countries.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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&quot;Our latest data shows 16 dead with most of them killed after their houses collapsed on them. This. He said the quake damaged more than 600 houses, six schools, several churches and mosques.
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Scientists yesterday identified a virus as one of the likely causes of the recent wave of honeybee colony collapses across the country.
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THERE have been three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, the World Health Organisation says, raising fears of a fresh outbreak of the disease in South East Asia.
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ATLANTA -- A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug is sometimes fatal.
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The number of suspected cholera cases in northern Iraq continues to rise, with 16,000 people now showing symptoms, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been struck down by a highly infectious stomach bug that swept the United Kingdom during the holiday period, doctors said on Thursday.
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KUALA LUMPUR (dpa) - Malaysia announced Tuesday that it has detected three new outbreaks of the deadly avian influenza, one of which is outside the quarantine zone of the first area hit by the virus.
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Confirmation of two new cases of West Nile disease in Illinois has brought the 2004 total to 56 cases of the mosquito-borne illness, two more than 2003.
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MALAYSIA yesterday announced new bird flu cases and said a veterinary worker had been hospitalised with a fever and cough. Officials said eight birds had died from the H5 strain of avian flu in three villages
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A recent outbreak of avian cholera was especially potent, killing about 15,000 birds in all.
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A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an  elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli  infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a  nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health  officials said on Friday.
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The outbreak that struck a family in Indonesia may have been more dangerous than originally believed, a new report says
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A soil-borne bacterial infection  called melioidosis has killed 24 people in Singapore this year,  making it more deadly than SARS or bird flu, the health  ministry said on Friday.