WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 people had been killed amid 72 sickened in 18 states in listeria outbreak traced to Colorado cantaloupes, making it the most deadly U.S. outbreak of food-borne infection since 1998, the Centers for Disease...
COPENHAGEN, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The outbreak of infections caused by E. coli bacteria may be over in Denmark as no new cases have been reported here since Friday. According to Denmark's National Serum Institute (NSI), there are 18 confirmed cases of s...
By Barry Newhouse Bangkok 01 August 2006 Tourism representatives in Thailand have expressed concern after last week's first reported bird flu death in the country in seven months. Tourism is critical to the Thai economy and the industry is urging th...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 May 2006 Two unidentified farm worker walk towards birds suspected of having bird flu virus Nigeria's agriculture ministry has confirmed a new outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in the northern state of Kano. Dead c...
By Rowan Reid Johannesburg 18 May 2006 A child suffering from cholera receives treatment in a medical center in Boa Vista, May 14, 2006 More than 34,000 people have fallen ill and 1,200 have died from...
Broadcast: Mar 28 2003 United Nations health officials are concerned about the outbreak of disease from poor water and 1) sanitation conditions in Iraq if the war 2) drags on. But so far, they say, co...
Broadcast: Feb 07, 2003 The World Health Organization said is about to ship millions of 2) doses of a new meningitis vaccine to almost two dozen countries in Africa. The vaccine was developed in recor...
By Lisa Schlein The World Health Organization says an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in southern Sudan is over. WHO says the disease, which was first reported in Yambio County in Sudan's Equatoria...
By Lisa Schlein The World Health Organization says Hepatitis E is sweeping camps for internally displaced people in the western Darfur province of Sudan. The agency says it has confirmed more than 620...
2 More Die in Asian Bird Flu Outbreak Katherine Maria The human death toll from the bird flu has risen to 12 and the World Health Organization says China needs to give more information about the disea...
