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Infant Formula Contaminated with Fuel Rocket
When it comes to food, everybody appears to be in danger, from infants to the very old. Nothing is...
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University of Pennsylvania on High Alert Over Meningitis Cases
University of Pennsylvania students are on high alert following three cases of meningococcal...
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Peanut Corp. of America Files for Bankruptcy Following Salmonella Scandal
Peanut Corp. of America, the company behind the current salmonella outbreak in the United States,...
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Bird Flu Outbreak in China Raises Concern Over Human Transmission
Chinese authorities announced on Tuesday that they had begun destroying and vaccinating...
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China Culls Chickens after Bird Flu Outbreak
More than 370,000 chickens have been culled
in China’s eastern Jiangsu province after
finding the...
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Update: The Efficacy Of Hong Kong’s Bird Flu Vaccine Questioned
This week’s bird flu outbreak is the first
incident of this type on a Hong Kong farm
since 2003,...
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New Bird Flu Outbreak Reported In Hong Kong
Commonly known as the “bird flu” or “avian flu,” avian influenza is a type of influenza caused by...
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Google Flu Trends – A New Tool to Track Flu Outbreaks
Google wants to be more than a giant search engine; it wants to be closer to its users through its...
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8 More Salmonella Cases Tied To Dry Pet Food
Eight more cases of people becoming infected with salmonella Schwarzengrund have been identified,...
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FDA Lacks Staffers, Report Shows
While repeated outbreaks of food poisoning persist in the United States, the Food and Drug...
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FDA Allows Irradiation Of Spinach And Lettuce To Kill Germs
In an attempt to reduce the risk of contamination with E. coli and Salmonella, the US Food and Drug...
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Meat Recall Due To E. Coli Announced By A California Food Comp.
A California
food company announced it is recalling 153,630 pounds of frozen ground beef
after...
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Squash That Mosquito! Its Bite Could Be Deadly
Who would have thought that such a little insect, the
mosquito, could turn into the most dangerous...
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Goshen Scout Camp Closed Following E. coli Outbreak
After fourteen Boy Scouts and one adult contracted E. coli
infection while attending a popular...
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Salmonella Peppers Come from Mexican Farms
Salmonella Peppers Come from Mexican FarmsThe FDA has announced that it has discovered a source of...
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Tomatoes Are Officially Salmonella Free
On Thursday, federal health officials finally lifted the 40
day-old warning with regard to...
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Peppers Now Linked To Salmonella Outbreak; Cases Rise to 1,065
If you’re a fan of the Mexican cuisine and especially fresh salsa, you may need to think twice...
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U.S. Southwest Air and Canada WestJet Link Up Expanding Market Views
Southwest Airlines Co., the largest U.S.
discounter, announced yesterday that it reached an...
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FDA Broadens Search for Salmonela Outburst Source
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is testing
cilantro, jalapeno peppers, and Serrano...
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E. coli Outbreak Leads to Massive Beef Recall
Nebraska Beef Ltd decided to expand its voluntary recall to 5.3 million pounds, representing all...
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Salsa: The New Suspect In Salmonella Outbreak
The Center for
Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services...
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Nebraska Beef Ltd. Prepares Massive Beaf Recall
Nebraska Beef Ltd. announced its decision to expand its already
massive meat recall to 5.3 million...
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FDA: Is the Tomato to Blame for Salmonella Outbreak? Is It Not?...
Three weeks after the Food and Drug Administration first warned
consumers to avoid certain types...
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Salmonella Outbreak Will Soon Be History
The worrying 17-state salmonella outbreak recently led to
the voluntary withdrawal by a large...
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McDonald’s Outs Tomatoes from Sandwiches over Salmonella Threat
McDonald’s sandwiches will be tomatoes-free following the
salmonella outbreak in the U.S.
having...
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Salmonella Scare Prompts Tomato Withdrawal Nationwide
Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s tomato
warning, more restaurants and grocery...
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Number of US States Struck by Salmonella Infections Reaches 16
Tomatoes-borne Salmonella bacteria appear to infect more people each day spreading all over the...
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"Green Our Vaccine" Takes Jim Carrey to a March
Wednesday, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy along with other
national autism advocacy groups...
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Tomatoes May Be Blamed for Salmonella Outbreak in 9 States
Health authorities are blaming tomatoes for an outbreak of
salmonella in nine U.S. states after...
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Health Alert: Hepatitis A case in Buffalo-Area Wegmans
More than a thousand people were expected to be vaccinated after a Hepatitis A scare in...
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U.S.
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US, Mexico, Canada urge countries to lift pork restrictions
Washington - The United States, Mexico and Canada on Thursday urged trading partners around the...
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New York finds more probable cases, more schools closed
New York - Authorities confirmed Thursday a total of 49 swine flu cases in New York City and...
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US braces for worse from swine flu
Washington - The United States braced for worse from the swine flu outbreak Tuesday as officials...
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Sebelius confirmed as US health secretary amid swine-flu scare
Washington - Kathleen Sebelius was approved by the US Senate as health secretary Tuesday,...
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New York confirms 44 swine flu cases, expects more
New York - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that 44 swine flu cases have been confirmed in New...
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Obama asks Congress for 1.5 billion dollars for flu
Washington - US President Barack Obama is asking Congress for an added 1.5 billion dollars to fight...
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Schwarzenegger proclaims state of emergency; one possible flu death
Sacramento - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to...
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Swine flu cases rise to 64 in five US states
Washington - The number of human swine influenza cases in the United States increased to 64...
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Report Calls for Stronger Measures to Boost US Food Safety
A report released Wednesday by Trust for America's Health in conjunction with the Robert Wood...
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PCA Fills for Bankruptcy Protection
Peanut Corporation of America has already filed for bankruptcy protection and will soon begin to...
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More Severe Food Safety Standards after Peanut Butter Outbreak
The government has decided to ask for harsher conditions to be followed by the companies which...
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Second Peanut Butter Factory Closes Its Doors
The authorities continue to investigate the salmonella outbreak. Representatives at the company...
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Employees at Georgia Peanut Processing Plant Talk about the Filthy Conditions
After the investigators of the salmonella outbreak tracked Georgia processing plant as being the...
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Senate: FDA Acted Very Late in Salmonella Outbreak
One of the main causes of the salmonella outbreak which lead to eight deaths across the United...
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The Problem about Peanut Plant Calls for Recall
After the peanut butter in the United States had been involved in the salmonella outbreak, the Army...
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Salmonella Outburst Linked To Peanut Butter
The outburst of salmonella that affected approximately 410 people in 43 states, and is believed to...
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Peanut Butter, Possibly The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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Health Officials In Minnesota: Peanut Butter Might Have Started Salmonella Outbreak
Even if federal officials have yet to establish the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has...
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Salmonella Outbreak Made 388 People Sick
On Wednesday, United States health officials revealed that an outbreak of salmonella food...
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How Prepared are the U.S. States for Actual Disaster?
Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia along with New Hampshire and Wisconsin are among the five...
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Google Releases Its Newest Tool: Google Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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Obama Expected To Render FDA Imports Monitoring Stricter
With Barack
Obama having been elected the next president of the United States on November 4,...
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Business
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Mexico says bans on pork products not meeting WTO rules
Geneva - Mexico has called on members of the World Trade Organization to withdraw any measures...
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Wall Street falls for second day on swine flu, banking fears
New York - Major US stock indices fell for a second straight day Tuesday as concerns over the...
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Kellogg’s Pull Back Peanut Butter Crackers
The Kellogg Company, commonly referred o as Kellogg’s, is one of the most famous, popular...
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Global Meltdown Set to Hit Hong Kong's Luxury Market Hardest
Hong Kong - It is home to some of Asia's wealthiest and most successful people - a city where...
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Financial behemoth Lehman Brothers largest failure in US
New York - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the 158-year-old investment bank, has become the largest...
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Whole Foods Market Announces Meat Recall Due To E.coli Outbreak
Whole Foods Market is recalling fresh
ground beef that was sold between June 2 and August 6 in...
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Salmonella Outbreak Moves to Court; Wal-Mart Sued by Victim
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been sued by a Colorado man who says he got sick of
salmonellosis after...
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Salmonella Outbreak Brings To Light Tensions And Bad Communication
Investigators continued their search for
the source of the Salmonella saintpaul outbreak that has...
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GSK’s Shares Up on EU Permission to Sell Bird-Flu Vaccine
GlaxoSmithKline, the United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical, biological, and healthcare company,...
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Metz Fresh Issues Voluntary Spinach Recall, No People Infected
Metz Fresh, LLC announced it found traces of Salmonella bacteria in its spinach bags and is...
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Spinach Recall Due to Salmonella Threat
More than 68,000 pounds of bagged spinach are to be withdrawn from market by a Monterey County...
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World
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WHO says no evidence virus was a lab creation
Geneva - There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created...
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Saudi Arabia will not bar pilgrims for fear of swine flu
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia will not bar pilgrims from countries that have reported cases of swine...
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Mexico's flu death toll rises to 44
Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's epidemic of a hitherto-unknown strain of flu...
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Mexico's flu death toll reaches 42
Mexico City - The number of deaths in Mexico known to have been caused by the outbreak of a...
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Mexico to inject over 2 billion dollars to combat effect of flu
Mexico City - Mexico launched Tuesday a plan to provide more than 1 billion dollars to help...
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Criminals may exploit swine flu fears, Interpol warns
Paris - The international police organization Interpol warned Thursday that criminals may use fears...
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No EU travel ban to Mexico, diplomats say
Luxembourg - The European Union is not going to ban travel to Mexico because of the outbreak...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Five Austrians fall ill with possible swine flu
Vienna - One Austrian woman was "likely" infected with swine flu and four others are...
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WHO: China Investigates Several Suspicious Flu Cases
China is investigating several suspicious cases involving influenza-like symptoms but has not...
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Mexico shuts schools nationwide as flu deaths reach 149
Mexico City - Mexico on Monday closed schools and universities until May 6 and limited commercial...
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Obama: Swine flu outbreak a cause for "concern," not alarm
Washington - President Barack Obama said he was closely watching an outbreak of swine flu in the...
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Schwarzenegger: California prepared for swine flu outbreak
Los Angeles - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that California was fully prepared to deal...
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Ban says UN on top of the battle against swine flu
New York - The United Nations has taken steps to lead the fight against the sudden outbreak...
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Red Cross readies volunteers for swine flu
Geneva - The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies said it was...
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India sounds alert over swine-flu outbreak
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
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Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up
Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
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CDC Probing Salmonella Outbreak In The United States
Just months after salmonella Saintpaul caused more than 1,400 illnesses all over the United...
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Chinese Woman Died of Bird Flu
The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that a 19-year-old teenager girl from Beijing died of...
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Beijing Woman Dies Of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Baby girl hospitalized in Hong Kong with mild form of bird flu
The infant, who normally lives in Shenzhen in southern China, was diagnosed with the H9N2 strain of...
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This Christmas Season More Jolly In Bethlehem
Bethlehem, West Bank - Once again, there is no room at the inn in Bethlehem.
After years of...
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Mugabe Clings To Power Through Election Calamity, Cholera
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe is short on laughs these days, so short, in fact, that the capital Harare,...
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Cholera Epidemic In Zimbabwe Passes 1,000 Death Toll
Cholera is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium...
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Mugabe Party Jamboree Begins In Shadow Of Cholera
Harare - President Robert Mugabe's once indomitable Zanu-PF party gathers on Thursday for its...
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Hong Kong steps up border checks to halt bird flu outbreak
Hong Kong - Customs officials were on Friday stepping up the number of random checks on vehicles...
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Zimbabwe Declares National Emergency
Zimbabwe declared a national health emergency as the cholera epidemic froze the entire health...
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Airports Closure Casts Long Shadow On Thai Tourism
Bangkok - The week-long closure of Bangkok's two airports has left the capital's hotels empty,...
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Bird flu outbreak in India's Assam state, 40,000 poultry culled
New Delhi - Authorities in India's north-eastern Assam state culled 40,000 poultry of some 60,000...
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Pope prays for the victims of Mumbai attacks
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday sent condolences to the victims of the attacks in...
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Swine flu tally is 2,384 cases in 24 countries: WHO
Geneva/Stockholm - The World Health Organization increased Friday the number of...
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WHO reports 1,658 confirmed cases of swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,658 cases of the new...
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WHO reports 1,516 confirmed cases of new flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,516 cases of the...
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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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Mexican health officials raise swine-flu deaths to 19
Mexico City - Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova have raised the number of confirmed...
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WHO rejects criticism it acted too slowly on swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization Friday rejected criticism that it was too slow in reacting...
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WHO changes virus name, 257 confirmed cases
Geneva - The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of...
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Travel and swine flu: US vice president stirs pot
Washington - While countries debate whether it's wise to travel to Mexico or the United...
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Japan's Aso urges calm, cooperation on swine flu
Beijing - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday urged Japanese...
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Japanese woman travelling from US tests positive for influenza
Tokyo - A Japanese woman who arrived at Tokyo's airport from Los Angeles tested...
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Swine flu case reported at World Bank in Washington
Washington - The swine flu outbreak may have spread to the US capital, after the World Bank...
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US swine flu numbers rise to 109
Washington - US officials said Thursday the US swine flu confirmed-case total had risen to 109, up...
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WHO: 154 Confirmed Cases of Swine Flu
The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of swine...
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EU Health Agency Raises Number of Swine Flu Cases
Seven European countries had confirmed cases of people infected with swine flu as of Thursday...
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What is swine flu?
Stockholm - The current outbreak of swine flu which has caused alarm around the world is a...
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Swine Flu Outbreak - A Cause for "Concern," Obama Says
President Barack Obama said he was closely watching an outbreak of swine flu in the United States,...
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CDC to issue travel advisory on Mexico
Washington - The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was to issue an advisory...
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Spain calls for calm after case of swine flu is confirmed
Madrid - The Spanish government on Monday called for calm after Europe's first case of swine flu...
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Three test negative for swine flu as Hong Kong goes on guard
Hong Kong - Three patients tested negative for swine flu in Hong Kong as the...
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Flu Death Toll in Mexico on the Rise
The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 103, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova...
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Swine Flu Spread Worries CDC Officials
Swine flu has turned into an epidemic in Mexico City where it has killed as many as 60 people and...
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Red Cross says polio resurging in Africa
Geneva - The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) warned Wednesday that polio is...
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Nearly 3,000 Urged to Get Tested for Hepatitis B in New Jersey
New Jersey officials are advising nearly 3,000 people to get blood tests after an outbreak of...
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CQC: 21 NHS Trusts Fail Hygiene Tests
According to a report released Friday by the Care Quality Commission, the new “super...
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California Plant Announces Nationwide Recall of Pistachio Products
The Food and drug Administration on Monday announced that up to 1 million pounds of roasted...
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Babson College Closes because Likely Norovirus Outbreak
Babson College closed its doors on Saturday because of a likely norovirus outbreak. More than 100...
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Norovirus Infects More than 100 Passengers on Cruise Ship
A trip on the sea ended not so well for more than 100 passengers on a Holland America Cruise ship...
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Texas Takes Over Peanut Butter Recall
On Friday, the Department of State Health Services from Texas announced that it is taking full...
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Zimbabwe Fights Worst Cholera Outbreak in Its History
Zimbabwe is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in the history of the country with almost...
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Zimbabwe’s Health Issues Worsen
A deadly cholera outbreak has started to worsen the health problems of Zimbabwe. Despite the fact...
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