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Risk of Water Intoxication in Endurance Athletes

...ce 1985, there have been at least eight documented fatalities from EAH related to long-distance events. The publics impression of the amount of water that is necessary to drink for good health is not based on real factual data, said Dr. Joseph Verbalis at Georgetown University Medical Center. Many in our soci...

Dengue Deaths in Cambodia This Year Exceed 2006 Toll

... deaths in Cambodia so far this year have eclipsed fatalities in 2006 as the country battles one of the worst ou...cade , medical officials said Thursday. Some 182 fatalities have been recorded for the first half of this year out of 14,986 cases, said Ngan Chantha, director ...

Skin Cancer Rates Soar In Warmer Regions Of UK

...ths from malignant melanoma in Britain, with 1,800 fatalities and thousands more diagnoses every year, than in Australia, where there are about 1,000 deaths annually.Figures released by Cancer Research in April show cases have increased by 29 percent in men and 14 percent in women over the past 10 years. Acco...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

...s. Of course the trucking industry has the most fatalities of all occupations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says truck drivers account for nearly 15 percent of all worker deaths in the most recent data available, from 2005. (The death rate per 100,000 is higher for other occupations.) Of those trucker deat...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...lbrook teen, and a Brockton man were among the six fatalities within those 13 cases. The virus is still considered rare -- there have been fewer than 89 cases in the past 70 years -- but proves fatal to more than half of the people who are infected. As few as 10 to 20 percent of the people who contract EEE ...

Bird Flu in Asia Still High Risk Says WHO Official

...worst hit nation by the deadly H5N1 virus, with 80 fatalities to date. In Indonesia alone, the WHO estimates that there are more than 13,000 poultry markets, where birds from many different places are exposed to each other, raising the danger of transmission. Since 2003, the H5N1 virus has infected 310 peop...

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