'Brain fever' toll in northern India passes 400
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Nearly 30 children have died this month of mosquito-borne encephalitis in northern India, taking the toll since July to 401, health officials said.
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A bus carrying Hindus on a religious pilgrimage skidded off a hill in western India and plunged into a gorge, killing at least 38 people and injuring 40 others
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Two passenger trains collided in northern India yesterday, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 50. The accident happened only days after the government unveiled a
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Vietnam confirmed a new bird flu death to bring Asia&#39;s human toll to 30 yesterday, while Thailand rued its flawed efforts to control the epidemic after reporting its first likely case of the virus jumping from one person to another.
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At least four people drowned or were electrocuted over the weekend in the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan, bringing India's overall monsoon death toll to 177, officials said Monday.
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AT LEAST 38 people died today when two passenger trains collided head-on in India&#39;s northern Punjab state, officials said, revising downwards a previous death toll of 50.
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(New York-WABC, October 14, 2004) - New York State officials are investigating a rare, one-in-a-million brain disease that&#39;s killed four people in Ulster County.
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Rescue workers have pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India, and the government has warned the death toll of almost 7,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s south will rise further.
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A boy has died of bird flu virus in Thailand&#39;s central Prachinburi province, bringing the death toll from the epidemic in Asia to 28, the official Thai News Agency reported here on Thursday.
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Nearly 100 people, apparently  including many children, have been taken to hospital with  encephalitis B in southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province, Xinhua  news agency reported on Saturday.
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KHANPUR, India  - Welders cut through metal, and soldiers pulled bodies from the crushed cars of two trains that collided head-on Tuesday in northern India, killing 31 people. The railway minister said the crash was "nothing less than a brutal murder."
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Six people caught the deadly strain of bird flu in northern Pakistan last month and at least one person with the disease has died, the government said Saturday.
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Authorities in India's Kerala state are battling a fever outbreak that has claimed dozens of lives.
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The bird flu toll among tigers at a Thai zoo has risen to 83, but the keepers who looked after them are free of the deadly disease which has killed 31 people in southeast Asia this year, officials said on Friday.
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The death toll from an outbreak of cholera in India's Orissa state rises to 115, officials say.
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The bird flu epidemic spreads further in the Indian state of West Bengal with 13 of 19 districts affected, officials say.
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KOLKATA, India  - Health officials in India's flood-hit city of Kolkata said on Thursday they were worried about the outbreak of disease, as residents drank and swam in filthy, neck-deep water.