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Dozens More H5N1 Bird Flu Cases in Germany

...lso been reported near Leipzig in the neighbouring eastern state of Saxony, bordering the Czech Republic which is battling a more severe outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu. Germany's Friedrich Loeffler Institute, the national veterinary laboratory, has suggested the disease could have jumped the border from th...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...ntially fatal disease. Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney. It is also reported that the State Government wants a national review of "quack" natural therapies, believing they are "inherently dangerous". Dr Hameiri has been referred to the NSW Medical Board and Health Care Complaints Com...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

...he virus in Perth or if it had moved across to the eastern states....

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

...uangxi autonomous region in southern China and the eastern financial center of Shanghai. "Some of the children have felt pain in their legs and some have experienced difficulty in walking after being injected with the methotrexate drug numbered 070403A and 070403B," the statement said. "Local drug regula...

Singapore Firm Launches MBBS Programme in Eastern India

...HCMI) Saturday launched a programme at Kolkata for eastern India. "In view of the huge demand of high-quali...Chennai, Ahmedabad and Delhi. Now we are exploring eastern India," said HCMI managing director Baljit Singh here. Headquartered in Singapore, HCMI has alread...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

...level on Tuesday after the volcano, located in the eastern province of North Maluku, started spitting out flaming material, indicating magma was approaching the craters surface making an eruption more likely, Saut Simatupang of Indonesia's Vulcanological Survey told Reuters news agency. The 1635m volcano, ...

Move To Ban Asbestos Welcomed

...closing down the asbestos mines - most notably the eastern townships in Quebec where asbestos is mined. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn issued a one-paragraph statement defending the status quo on grounds that chrysotile asbestos, the only type mined in Quebec, is "safe when properly used.'' He also ...

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

...r of training at the institute for the deaf in the eastern city of Valencia. Minguet finds her little multi-function phone a godsend and like other participants at the congress of the World Federation of the Deaf under way in Madrid, finds new technology a boon bolstering face-to-face communication at an e...

Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys

...et monkey, Chlorocebus pygerythrus, which lives in eastern and southern Africa; and the grivet monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, which lives in northeast Africa. The scientists used the genetic sequences to sort out the ancestral relationships among the different species of monkeys. Other researchers had alread...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

...n." Li said China has shut down two companies in eastern China blamed for adding the dangerous chemical mel...ctions, Li said. Also shut down was a factory in eastern China that produced diethylene glycol, an ingredient normally used in anti-freeze. The company mis...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...dia reported on Sunday . New satellite pictures of eastern China show the blue-green foul-smelling algae spreading in Taihu and Chaohu lakes, the Workers Daily newspaper said. The toxic algae scare in Lake Taihu has already triggered government panic and forced residents of nearby Wuxi city in Jiangsu prov...

AIDS No Longer a Death Sentence for South Africa's Children

...een-year-old Silindile Ncwane, from South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, explained the tribulations of living with his elderly grandmother who took him and his siblings in after his mother died. "For me it's very hard to get them ready for school every day and help them with their homework...(they)...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...tion, located in the tea-growing town of Jorhat in eastern Assam, was set up in 1901 and is currently the world's biggest facility for tea research. Apart from tea extracts, Tea Cola contains certain permissible additives and some sweeteners. "The idea to develop Tea Cola is nothing but value addition to t...

One in a Hundred Eleven-year Olds Use Drugs to Enhance Performance in Sport

...s entering their first year of secondary school in eastern France in November 2001 about their use of drugs banned under the World Anti-Doping Agency International Standard. Use of any of the listed drugs for a medical condition was allowed. The children filled out questionnaires every six months which ask...

Polluted Chinese River Hospitalises 61

...sh or washed their clothes in the Jindong River in eastern Anhui province on Tuesday, felt a burning sensation on their skin a few hours later, Xinhua news agency reported. The report, citing the local government, said an oily substance could be seen on the river, but the cause of the pollution was not yet...

Dozens of Panamanians Gravely Ill from Toxic Substance from China

...itted that toothpaste produced by two companies in eastern China and exported to Panama contained the toxin, but insisted the levels were too low to be harmful to humans. At the beginning of June, the US Food and Drug Administration urged consumers to stay away from Chinese-made toothpaste after finding leve...

Go for Russia, Not China, Wine Experts Say

...the good life," he said. "They are the Italians of eastern Europe. And right now, since the problems with Moldovan and Georgian wines, which were 55 percent of the market, the place is wide open." "I wouldn't disagree about going for Russia at the moment," Singh said. Levels of imported wines in Russia, wh...

Insecurity Jepardising WFP Initiatives in Western Afghanistan

...Herat. The provinces of Paktika and Ghazni in the eastern region have also become difficult to reach....

Health Tourists Put Spanish Service Under Strain

...of tourists have been coming to Spain's sun-kissed eastern and southern coastline for decades and convalescen... the Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) in the eastern coastal region of Valencia. "Everything is easier here, healthcare is universal and free for all," ...

Six Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Germany

...esden in August last year. It killed a swan in the eastern city's zoo. According to the World Health Organisation, bird flu has claimed more than 130 lives worldwide since 2003, mostly in southeast Asia....

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