Animal and human health experts head for bird flu conference in Vietnam
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Animal and human health experts headed to Vietnam's southern business capital for an international conference focused on eradicating the deadly bird flu virus.
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Avian flu a serious threat to the world: CDC head
Mon Feb 21, 7:09 PM ET
The killer flu that has decimated poultry in Asia is a serious global hazard because genetic mutations in its virus could potentially infect and kill millions of humans, a top US health official warned.
Second organ donor recipient dies of rabies in Germany
Mon Feb 21,12:24 PM ET
A second transplant patient has died in Germany after receiving an organ from a donor infected with rabies, the hospital treating him said.
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Britain extends food recall in cancer scare
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Britain's food safety watchdog extended to more than 400 the number of food items recalled because they are tainted by a potentially cancer-causing dye, and warned the number may rise further.
In an Afghan children's hospital, power cuts decide life or death
Mon Feb 21,12:22 PM ET
A newborn with septicemia, the rims of his eyes blackened, breathes with difficulty in an incubator. He will only survive if the Indira Gandhi hospital doesn't have one of its regular power cuts, which have already killed more than one child.
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Mystery illness shuts Australian airport terminal for hours, 50 affected
Mon Feb 21, 6:25 AM ET
One of Australia's main airport terminals was shut down for eight hours as emergency crews hunted in vain for the cause of a mystery illness which struck down nearly 60 staff and passengers in the building, officials said.
Thailand to use bird flu vaccine within two months: deputy PM
Mon Feb 21,11:44 AM ET
Thailand will begin vaccinating millions of chickens and other fowl against bird flu within the next two months to combat the lingering disease in the kingdom.
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WHO team heads to pneumonic plague-hit region of DR Congo
Mon Feb 21,12:08 PM ET
A World Health Organisation team has left Kinshasa for the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where at least 61 people have died from pneumonic plague since the end of December.
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Japan's population could decline this year
Mon Feb 21,11:41 AM ET
Japan's population rose just 0.05 percent in the year to October 2004 and could decline this year for the first time since records began in 1950.
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Gaining weight increases risk of dementia: Swedish study
Sun Feb 20, 9:32 AM ET
People who gain even just a few extra kilos/pounds when they reach middle-age increase their risk of developing dementia later in life, according results from a new Swedish study published in a Swedish newspaper.
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Sun Feb 20, 4:30 PM ET
Woman in Germany dies after contracting rabies from organ transplant
Sun Feb 20, 3:39 PM ET
Tempted by higher salaries, Hungarian doctors go west
Sun Feb 20, 6:08 PM ET
UN still at odds on cloning
Sat Feb 19, 2:13 PM ET
UN says famine now threatens Sudan's Darfur
Sat Feb 19, 7:07 AM ET
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Cold kills 128 Afghan children, some given opium to ease pain: minister
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