China battles meningitis outbreak
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China issues emergency orders in response to a meningitis outbreak that has infected 258 people so far.
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Chinese health authorities have pledged to do more to prevent babies being infected by their mothers with the HIV virus during delivery.
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Children in overcrowded housing are up to 10 times more likely to contract meningitis, a report from charity Shelter reveals.
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SHANGHAI, China Sept. 14, 2004 - More countries need to enact preventative measures and boost preparedness for a possible renewed outbreak of SARS or avian flu among humans, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday.
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Aug 20, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A step in the progression of avian influenza considered almost inevitable by experts in view of the widespread and continuing Asian outbreaks this yearâits occurrence in pigsâhas been taken, if a Chinese scientist&#39;s
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China is touting the pre-emptive measures it has taken to cooperate with the world&#39;s public health establishment in fighting bird flu.
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A vaccine against virulent bacterial meningitis could save the lives of nearly 3,000 people over the next decade, at the cost of more than $1 million a life.
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Nearly 100 people, apparently including many children, have been taken to hospital with encephalitis B in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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Health reports show it would have been difficult for Desert Vista High School students to contract bacterial meningitis from a fellow student who is recuperating at an area hospital.
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SHANGHAI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a global outbreak of avian influenza unless greater efforts are made to fight the disease in countries already affected
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An unusually virulent virus could be behind an outbreak of meningitis that led to the hospitalization of six seventh-grade football players in Cy-Fair ISD, school officials and infectious-disease experts said Wednesday.
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SARS is expected to emerge in China  again this winter, but an epidemic is unlikely as the world's  most populous country is better prepared this time round,  health officials say.
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Health authorities in Hong Kong are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a hospital that has infected 28 children.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)  Friday called for measures to prevent a flu pandemic in humans  after China said a deadly strain of bird flu was found in pigs,  adding to signs that an outbreak among people was likely.
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A farmer in China's southeastern province of Fujian has been infected with the H5N1 form of bird flu, state media said on Thursday, the first human case in the country in about seven weeks.
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Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi said Monday that China is willing to strengthen co-operation with other countries and regions of the Western Pacific in fighting various diseases including communicable and chronic ones.
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Children in overcrowded housing are up to 10 times more likely to contract meningitis, a report reveals.