Philippine health official says meningitis-like disease not an ...
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A health official in the Philippines said Monday a meningitis-like disease that killed eight people is not an outbreak, despite 18 new cases recorded in November.
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Doctors have expressed concerns about the government's plans for a flu pandemic.
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The risk of a flu pandemic remains high despite possible public fatigue with the issue, but the World Health Organization is hopeful the bird flu virus will do less damage than in past years during Asia's upcoming colder months, an official said Sunday.
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A 39-year-old Douglas County resident has the flu. The Douglas County Health Department ran confirmation tests on cultures Tuesday.
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BAGUIO CITYâSix new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, including that of three overseas Filipino workers, were reportedly placed on watchlist
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Pakistan said on Wednesday there was no threat of a pandemic from bird flu, as World Health Organization experts visited the country's northwest which reported the first human death from the virus.
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Japan's Health Ministry said on Wednesday  that at least one person had been infected with the bird flu  virus after an outbreak among chickens in February but that  there was no chance that this person would infect others.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Just because he's federal health minister, doesn't mean he's healthy.
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The UN-led vaccine development agency will work in North Korea next year for the first time to protect children from bacterial meningitis and Japanese encephalitis, officials said Sunday.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A19 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This was the Department of Health&#39;s advice yesterday to the public over the
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As many as one in 10 Filipinos have chronic Hepatitis Bâ¦ Most do not even know that they are infectedâ¦ Without appropriate management and monitoring, one in four chronic Hepatitis B
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For the first time, the federal government has proposed placing responsibility for preventing food-borne illness on farmers rather than on consumers.
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The county&#39;s assistant health officer confirms that blood tests from a 56-year-old man recovering from meningitis indicate that he has been infected with West Nile.
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SEREMBAN: A veterinarian and three of her children, who have been warded for observation at the Kota Baru Hospital, do not have a persistent fever or sore throat - the common symptoms of avian influenza.
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Investigators are preparing to test pig brains as they struggle to tell what is causing a mysterious nerve illness affecting pork plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana, but so far have found no signs of wider infection, federal health officials said Friday.
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More than 10 children have died of diarrhoea or dysentery in the storm-battered Philippines and fears of further sickness as well as an outbreak of malaria are rising due to the wet conditions and a lack of clean drinking water, UN agencies warned.
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State health officials said Monday that a preliminary investigation into a recent spate of deaths from a rare brain-wasting disease found no threat to public safety.