Skin disease strikes Iraqi children
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At least 275 children in southern Iraq have been infected with a disfiguring skin disease, an outbreak some health officials are blaming on the war's devastating effect on the public health system.
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A mother sits near her injured child at Yarmouk Hospital after three suicide bombers struck in the Amal neighbourhood of Baghdad. Photo: AP.
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A bomb attack near a soccer field in the volatile Iraqi city of Ramadi on Tuesday killed or wounded 19 people, most of them children, police said.
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After thousands were sickened in northern Iraq, health officials have confirmed two cases in the capital, and another has been reported in Basra.
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In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq, one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday. Across the globe, poor care for newborns, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and measles snuff out lives of the very young, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
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Two children die and other Iraqis are critically ill, after eating cake poisoned with thallium in Baghdad.
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Some of the children cry, refusing to speak but shivering in shock at the day&#39;s horror. Others lie lifeless in the morgue of Baghdad&#39;s Yarmouk hospital.
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At least a dozen Iraqis, including children, are killed in a US air strike on the Iraqi city of Falluja.
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Why are a growing number of young women in this relatively safe corner of Iraq showing up in local hospitals, dying of suspicious burns?
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Nearly 100 children were treated in hospital in southwestern China in the latest of a spate of food poisoning outbreaks that have raised concerns about hygiene standards, state press have said.
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What causes the burnlike skin lesions associated with Stevens-Johnson syndrome?
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The US military stepped up efforts to check Iraq&#39;s destabilising insurgency yesterday by pounding the restive city of Falluja, killing dozens of people, with children reported to be among the injured.
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Children living near  a Russian space launch station suffer higher rates of disease, a journal reports.
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The situation for Iraqi children is getting worse and, in some respects, was better before the war began, a senior U.N. official said Monday.
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STANFORD, California  - A potentially crippling disease in which the slightest touch of the skin can cause intense pain is often misdiagnosed in children, needlessly leaving some young patients in wheelchairs or on crutches, pediatric experts said.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released on Tuesday.
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Shade your kids. Strong new evidence suggests overall sun exposure in childhood, not just burns, is a big key to who later develops deadly skin cancer.