Indian dengue toll climbs to 38
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India's health minister holds urgent talks as he confirms 38 deaths in an outbreak of dengue fever.
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U.S. cases of encephalitis and meningitis caused by West Nile virus rose last year to the highest level since 2003, and the death toll jumped from 2005, federal health officials reported on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES - The number of people killed by the mosquito-borne West Nile virus has increased from seven to nine and the tally of confirmed human cases throughout the nation&#39;s most populous state has increased by more than 46 percent in a week, health
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HYDERABAD, India  - Three bombs within minutes, one at a street-side food stall and two in an amusement park, killed at least 38 people in a southern Indian city on Saturday in the latest in a series of attacks on urban centers.
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Rescue workers have pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India, and the government has warned the death toll of almost 7,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s south will rise further.
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The bird flu epidemic spreads further in the Indian state of West Bengal with 13 of 19 districts affected, officials say.
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Thirty six more people have been reported killed in the torrential monsoon rains lashing India, taking this year&#39;s toll to more than 270, officials and media said Tuesday.
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The death toll due to flash floods in Assam mounted to 67 following recovery of six more bodies at Goalpara district in Lower Assam on Sunday morning, official sources said.
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Amnesty International says tens of thousands people still suffer appalling illnesses from one of the world&#39;s worst industrial disasters that struck the central Indian city of Bhopal 20 years ago.
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Health workers from France, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba have joined their Paraguayan counterparts in battling an outbreak of dengue that has claimed 10 lives this year, Health Minister Oscar Martinez said Tuesday.
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International tests have confirmed that a 7-year-old girl died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu earlier this month, bringing Indonesia&#039;s death toll from the virus to at least 38, a health official said Thursday.
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A health alert is declared in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia after an outbreak of dengue fever.
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Guwahati, October 10:: The death toll in flash floods in Goalpara district of Assam today rose to 119 with the recovery of 58 more bodies, police sources said.
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Six more children have died of encephalitis in northern India, pushing the toll from an outbreak that erupted in late June to 151.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's death toll  from the weekend's tsunami soared past 27,000 on Wednesday, but  was expected to climb higher with many bodies still buried  under mud and rubble.
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India now has the largest number of AIDS infections as the spread of the disease shows no sign of letting up a quarter-century into an epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives, the U.N. reported Tuesday.
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A total of 22,493 people have been confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll could pass the 30,000 mark.