Another HK child dies of mysterious infection
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ONE more child at a Hong Kong hospital has fallen prey to the mysterious respiratory infection that has put the Special Administrative Region on &quot;green&quot; alert.
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HONG KONG  - Hong Kong health chiefs are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness at a hospital involving 19 children that left one girl dead, the government revealed.
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BANGKOK - A 26-year-old woman who died of avian flu eight days ago almost certainly contracted the disease from her daughter in what could be the first documented case of human to human transmission of the virus, health officials say.
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Vietnam said two children who died of  bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain,  bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest  outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier  this year.
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Health authorities in Indonesia have begun investigating whether a nine-year-old girl who died this week of the H5N1 strain of bird flu belonged to a cluster of human cases.
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HONG KONG - Hong Kong legislators on Wednesday criticized a Hong Kong hospital for failing to immediately report an outbreak of a mysterious illness in its pediatric ward earlier this month.
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A hospital has closed its neonatal and pediatrics intensive care units to new admissions after a potentially fatal bacterium sickened seven children, including an infant who may have died from the infection, officials said Friday.
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By the time she was 8 years old, J.B. had been hospitalized 200 times  and had undergone more than 40 operations, including the removal of most of her  intestines. K.C., a 2-year-old boy, was hospitalized more than 20 times due to  complications from asthma, severe pneumonia, mysterious infections, and sudden  fevers. His doctors were baffled and unable to determine the cause of these  illnesses. In a family with five children, one after another died of sudden infant  death syndrome (SIDS).
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Vietnam said on Tuesday initial tests  showed a 14-month-old boy died from bird flu, but it was  unclear if the child was infected with the same H5N1 strain of  the virus that killed 19 people in the country earlier this  year.
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A newly discovered cousin to the SARS virus may be the cause of several childhood illnesses, such as Kawasaki disease, which can damage the heart, said a new study.
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A mystery illness in Panama claimed the life of another victim on Thursday, bringing to 18 the number of people who have died from it and baffled health officials said poison could be involved.
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A 26-year-old Thai woman who died of acute pneumonia on 20 September was a âprobableâ case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Thai Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON  - Researchers have reportedly discovered a rare disease caused by a gene mutation that often kills children before the age of two.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   86-year-old woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E.   coli infections raised to three the number of deaths from an   outbreak traced to fresh spinach, state health officials said   on Friday.
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Three more suspected bird flu cases were found on Saturday in Thailand&#39;s central Prachinburi province, where a boy died of the avian influenza several days ago.
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Vietnam has officially confirmed that two young boys have died from bird flu as state media says two other people are suspected of contracting the virus.
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Thailand said a woman who died from avian influenza on Sept. 20 may have contracted the disease from her daughter in a human-to-human transmission.