Half of Toxic Leak Victims Discharged From Hospital in Central China
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Half of toxic leak victims discharged from hospital in central China    WUHAN, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Sixty-five victims from the toxic chemical leak last month in central China had recovered by Thursday, while 66 were still receiving treatment in hospital, local health authorities said.
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People gather at the gate of No2 Senior Middle School in Ruzhou, near Pingdingshan, in China&#39;s central Henan province. Photograph: Xinhua/Zhu/Reuters.
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Over the past 14 years there have been 114 deaths from cancer in Huangmengying, a village with a population of more than 2,400 in Shenqiu County, Central China&#39;s Henan Province.
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About 100,000 Chinese die annually from diseases associated with passive smoking while more than half a billion on the mainland suffer from the smoke exhaled from cigarettes, according to the Xinhua news agency.
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Chemical plant gas blast injures 23 in central China city    YICHANG, June 11 (Xinhua) -- At least 23 people were injured in gas explosion at a chemical plant in central China's Hubei Province Monday evening.   The blast occurred at around 8:38 p.m.
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Polluters along two of China's main rivers have defied a decade-old clean-up effort, leaving much of the water unfit to touch, let alone drink, and a risk to a sixth of the population, state media said on Monday.
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The death toll from a devastating coal mine gas explosion in central China's Henan province rose to 77 as rescuers continued to search for any survivors, state media reported.
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More than 570,000 victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in central India are finally to receive compensation. The Indian Supreme Court has approved a compensation plan it ordered the state welfare commission to draw up in July.
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A Chinese survey shows up to 75 percent of the country&#39;s city-dwellers suffer from poor health, and well-educated people die 10 years earlier than others.
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Rescuers said 141 miners remained trapped in a coal mine filled with toxic gas in China&#39;s Shaanxi province Monday after an explosion the day before killed 25.
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About 60 percent of Chinese cities still suffer from air pollution and have no centralized sewage treatment facilities, according to a report by the State environment watchdog.
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Up to 75 percent of urban Chinese suffer from bad health, with a new survey showing the problem is killing more people than infectious diseases, particularly among the skilled and educated.
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By Staff Reports  A woman who was overcome by a leaking dry-cleaning chemical and fell unconscious into a chemical puddle Thursday was decontaminated at the site and taken to a hospital.
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The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has finally found the culprit behind blood poisoning that has caused 179 villagers to be hospitalized in Northwest China's Gansu Province.
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Chinese authorities tried to slow the spread of a toxic spill by building 51 makeshift dams along the tainted river and using fire trucks to pump out polluted water before it reaches a reservoir serving a city of 10 million people, state media said Friday.
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More than 100 men are trapped and feared dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in central China on Sunday. Dangerous carbon monoxide levels are hampering rescue efforts, but one official said it was impossible for anyone to have survived.
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BEIJING -- China's Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics yesterday after the worst flooding in a century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing, while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.