WHO confirms 1st cholera case in Baghdad
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The World Health Organization on Thursday confirmed the first cholera case in Baghdad, raising fears the disease is spreading.
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Cholera has killed 54 people in Sierra  Leone so far this month and the disease has spread to areas  with few medical facilities outside the capital Freetown, a  senior health ministry official said on Friday.
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MANILA -- A medical specialist of the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday assured the public not to be alarmed with the reported cases of meningococcemia, a bacterial blood disease.
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Tony Blair yesterday became the first serving British prime minister to visit Baghdad since Stanley Baldwin in 1924, but his predecessor&#39;s arrival can scarcely have been as dramatic.
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Three people have died after an outbreak of cholera in a suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
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China confirmed on Tuesday that the  country's first human case of the H5N1 bird flu virus was in  late 2003, two years earlier than originally reported,  prompting the U.N.'s health agency to call for greater  transparency.
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THAILAND has confirmed its first likely case of human-to-human infection of bird flu, hours after UN agencies labelled the disease a &quot;crisis of global importance&quot;.
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A public inquiry into an E.coli outbreak in south Wales in which a five-year-old boy died is to hold its first session.
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A 15-year-old girl from Laos has become the country's first confirmed human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the communist government and World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
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A virulent form of hepatitis that is especially lethal for pregnant women has broken out in two of Iraq&#39;s most troubled districts, Iraqi Health Ministry officials said
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China ordered strengthened poultry disinfection measures yesterday under a bird flu alert during the wildfowl migration season and as Thailand announced its first probable case of human-to-human transmission.
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The World Health Organisation has said it is concerned about the world&#39;s first probable human to human transmission of the bird flu virus.
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The World Health Organization confirmed on Thursday the first cholera case in Baghdad since 2003, raising fears the disease is spreading from the north of the country where it has struck more than 1,000 people
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Spanish state radio said on Friday the  country&#039;s first case of H5N1 bird flu had been confirmed in a  great crested grebe in the city of Vitoria but officials said  test results were still not available.
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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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Bacterial contamination was first reported more than a month ago at a British flu vaccine factory.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the &quot;bird flu&quot; that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.