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Hand, foot and mouth toll rises to 34 in China
Beijing - At least 34 children have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in China as the total number of infections has risen to 25,000, the official news agency Xinhua reported Friday. The toll rose with two more deaths in the eastern...
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Thalidomide maker doubles payout to German victims of drug
Aachen, Germany - The German company which invented the drug thalidomide confirmed Thursday it would double its compensation payout to German victims of the birth-defects scandal 50 years ago. Taken as a sedative, thalidomide was used by pregnant wom...
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New Zealand warns against Chinese herbal tea
Wellington - New Zealand's Food Safety Authority warned consumers Thursday not to eat seeds in a Chinese herbal tea made from the plant abrus cantoniensis, which is also known as Canton love pea or herba abri, saying they were toxic. It said the tea,...
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Two-thirds of Indonesia's districts in malaria endemic area
Jakarta - More than two-thirds of the 576 districts in Indonesia have been classified as malaria endemic areas, with more than 100 million people at risk of catching the disease, the country's health minister said Thursday. Malaria is a contagious d...
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Activists challenge patent on African anti-bronchitis drug
Munich - Activists said Wednesday they had challenged a European patent on a method of extracting an anti-bronchitis drug from plants, and would prove that the method is based on ancient African knowledge. The dispute before the European Patent Offic...
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Hong Kong warns of record cases of deadly virus from China
Hong Kong - Hong Kong health officials on Wednesday warned of a record number of cases of the hand-foot-mouth disease which has so far killed 28 children in mainland China. Controller of the Centre for Health Protection, Thomas Tsang, said the govern...
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Child virus death toll hits 28; WHO backs China's controls
Beijing - The death toll from a virally transmitted hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) that has infected 16,000 children rose to 28 on Wednesday as the World Health Organization said it was satisfied with China's efforts to curb the spread of the virus. ...
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Hand-foot-mouth disease kills 10 children in Vietnam
Hanoi - Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), the viral illness that has killed 26 people in China this year, has also infected over 3,000 children in Vietnam since the start of the year, killing at least ten, health officials said Wednesday. Most of those...
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More preschools, day cares temporarily closing amid EV-71 virus
Singapore - More preschools and childcare centres in Singapore have been told to close amid increasing cases of a virulent strain of hand, food, and mouth disease (HFMD), health officials said Wednesday. Tests show that 26 per cent of the 10,490 chil...
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