Police seize illicit medicines from web merchants in Interpol raids
Wiesbaden, Germany - Police in 24 nations raided illegal internet pharmacies this week, intercepted parcels at mail depots and seized stocks of illicit medicines, German police said Thursday. The raids, which began Monday were aimed at confiscating c...
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Child mortality drops in 20th year of rights convention
New York - Child mortality rates have dropped by 28 per cent since the Convention on the Rights of the Child took effect 20 years ago, the UN Children's Fund said Thursday. An estimated 8.8 million children under five died from various diseases in 20...
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One twin talking after successful separation in Australia
Sydney - One of the Bangladeshi conjoined twins Australian surgeons separated this week is talking and cuddling her stand-in mother while the other is wiggling her fingers and soon will be woken from her induced coma. Doctors at Melbourne's Royal Chi...
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Macedonia reports its first swine flu death
Skopje - Macedonia on Wednesday reported its first swine flu death - a 32-year-old man who died in Skopje hospital according to local media. The man was hospitalized earlier this week with a serious case of pneumonia. ...
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Hungary declares influenza epidemic
Budapest - Influenza has officially reached the level of an epidemic, an official at Hungary's National Epidemiological Centre announced at a conference on Wednesday. More than 22,000 people reported flu symptoms over the past week, up 30 per cent fr...
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Lithuania reports first swine flu fatality
Vilnius - Health officials in Lithuania confirmed Wednesday that the country had recorded its first death linked to the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu. The victim was a 14-year-old boy from the Baltic state's second-largest city, Kauna...
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UN food summit to ends without much progress
Rome - A three-day United Nations food summit marked by the failure to secure substantial new funds to combat world hunger wrapped up in Rome on Wednesday. Summit host, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FA0), estimates that some 44 billion do...
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Rabies spreads in Indonesia's Bali
Bali Island, Indonesia - An outbreak of rabies is spreading in Indonesia's resort island of Bali, officials said Wednesday. Fifteen people have died and nearly 15,000 have been treated after being bitten by dogs since the outbreak began in November l...
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Largest-ever vaccination drive to be launched in African countries
New York - Close to 12 million people in Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone will be vaccinated against yellow fever in the largest health campaign in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. High vaccination coverage will prevent outbr...
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Indian authorities order probe into infant deaths at hospital
New Delhi - Authorities in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh have begun an investigation into the deaths of seven newborn babies at a hospital, news reports said Tuesday. The babies died at a government hospital in the Vijayawada city situated...
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