Bacterial outbreak: Six dead in the Philippines
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An air-borne bacterial outbreak has killed six people and ravaged the tourist industry at a northern Philippine mountain resort, officials said.
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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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During the past two weeks heavy storms and typhoons have rocked the Philippines killing and injuring people. As a result at least 640 dead and about 400 people missing in the northern Philippines.
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INFANTA, Philippines  - US Marines began helping relief operations in the Philippines following storms that have left more than 1,500 people dead as fears grew of a health crisis among survivors.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. BANGKOK, Thailand -- At least 36 people were killed and many more were feared dead after a series of tsunamis
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DARAGA, Philippines  - Distraught survivors searched piles of bodies for the faces of their loved ones in the central Philippines on Saturday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Durian left hundreds dead.
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Fresh rains and flooding have killed up to 16 people in the Philippines as a tropical storm worsened the death toll and damage from a weekend typhoon.
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QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec&#39;s health minister called the C. difficile bacteria outbreak a &quot;scourge&quot; on Wednesday, saying a six-fold increase in reported deaths linked to the bacteria is a &quot;serious problem.
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REAL, Philippines  - Survivors fearful of epidemics were burying hundreds of people killed in storms this week as Typhoon Nanmadol barreled out to sea after cutting a swathe of destruction across the northern Philippines.
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Up to 600 people are feared dead after storms and landslides in the Philippines, even as residents try to flee another typhoon. Rescuers trying to help flood victims before the next storm hits say they are unable to reach the areas worst affected.
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - At least 24 people are dead and dozens are missing after a tropical storm pounded the central Philippines with heavy rains and high waves over the weekend.
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Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 26 people in the northern Philippines, disaster officials said Tuesday, a week after storms left about 160 dead or missing.
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Manila, Dec. 1 (NNN) : More than 300 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say.
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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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HANOI -- Vietnam yesterday confirmed the sixth human death from bird flu in three weeks, and Thailand recorded its first case among poultry this year as health specialists expressed concern about a possible repeat of last year's devastating outbreak.
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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 rare outbreak of cholera in Singapore has killed an 89-year-old man, among nine people infected, and authorities are trying to trace the source of the disease, the government said Monday.