Mystery illness kills 18 in Panama
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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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The casualty toll from a typhoon that has lashed South Korea and Japan this week has reached at least 18 dead or missing.
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A rare and sometimes deadly pneumonia  has hit 18 U.S. soldiers deployed in Iraq, and Army medical  investigators are at a loss to explain the cause, according to  a study published on Tuesday.
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PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio  -- More than 300 people appear to be linked to a mysterious illness including nausea, fever, and vomiting in recent weeks on Lake Erie&#39;s South Bass Island, health officials said Thursday.
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At least nine people - seven of them children - have died in flooding in the capital of Panama. The authorities say at least 13 people are still missing after heavy rainfall caused rivers to break their banks.
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United Nations officials said they did not know if Ebola was the cause of a mystery illness that has killed more than 100 people.
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At least 18 people were killed and 38 injured early Saturday, when a speeding bus plunged into a ditch in northeastern Pakistan, police and hospital officials said.
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VICTORIA, British Columbia -- Four people, dozens of dogs and cats, 11 porpoises and a horse have died from a rare tropical fungus since it was detected on Vancouver Island in 1999, a study has concluded.
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Health officials on Thursday were investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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Vietnam said on Tuesday initial tests showed a 14-month-old boy died from bird flu, but it was unclear if the child was infected with the same H5N1 strain of the virus that killed 19 people in the country earlier this year.
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A California teenager, the only survivor of a plane crash that killed three people, was getting medical treatment in Panama on Wednesday, officials in the country said.
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Eighteen people reportedly died Saturday after consuming toxic liquor in Multan in Pakistan&#39;s Punjab province, The News reported Sunday.
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A powerful cyclone lashed Pakistan&#39;s southern coast on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, leaving dozens more missing and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, officials said.
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Panamanian authorities recalled a popular high blood pressure medicine after investigations linked it to a mystery illness that has killed 19 people.
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New York state health officials are investigating an unusual cluster of deaths in an upstate New York county that have all been caused by the same rare brain disease, they said Wednesday.
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Panamanian authorities have filed charges against the administrator of a Spanish company that allegedly sold a deadly chemical used in medicine that has killed at least 94 people in Panama.
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HCM CITY - A 16-year-old girl has been infected with H5N1, the deadly virus that causes avian flu. &quot;The virus has killed 20 people in the country since the beginning of this year&quot;, said deputy director of HCM Cityâs Tropical Diseases Hospital.