China virus outbreak kills third child
608490
A viral disease that has broken out in eastern China's Shandong province has killed a third child, Xinhua said on Thursday, raising doubts over earlier claims that the epidemic may have been contained.
57110
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.
571084
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.
650523
Hand, foot and mouth disease, which in rare cases can be fatal, has infected at least 121 children in north China's Inner Mongolia in recent days, Xinhua news agency said.
411551
A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl who battled  bird flu for more than two weeks has died, the country's third  casualty in 10 days from the disease that killed dozens and  devastated Southeast Asia's poultry industry last year.
710975
City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them.
54000
HANOI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam has confirmed that three local people, who died of bird flu early this month, were infected with the virus strain of H5N1.
56086
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.
408943
A nine-year-old girl has died of bird flu virus in northern Thailand, becoming the country&#39;s 11th victim of the epidemic, the public health official said here on Monday.
436289
Poultry farms around Moscow were under tight control on Saturday as a third outbreak of bird flu was found and health officials investigated whether the deadly H5N1 strain had caused the Russian capital's first exposure to the virus.
482972
At least five people are dead and three are missing after China's east coast is hit by Typhoon Wipha.
613630
Malaysia announced on Monday its second outbreak of deadly bird flu in three weeks, near a northern village close to the border with Thailand where the disease was first detected.
80313
BEIJING : Fifty-three people were confirmed dead Sunday after a passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off in northern China, officials and state media said.
466913
Among three recent human deaths in Vietnam&#39;s northern Thai Nguyen province, two were initially reported to have contracted an unidentified dangerous virus, local newspaper Labor reported Monday.
279903
KUALA LUMPUR - Three children and their mother from a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain have been admitted to hospital for medical checks after coming down with flu-like symptoms, but three others suspected of contracting the virus have been
357582
A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.
89967
China's Sichuan province faced the  threat of epidemics on Wednesday after the worst flooding in a  century killed at least 161 people and injured thousands and  water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam were due to peak.