China mass measles vaccination plan sparks outcry
BEIJING (AP) - China's plans to vaccinate 100 million children and come a step closer to eradicating measles has set off a popular outcry that highlights widening public distrust of the authoritarian...
View ArticleMeasles vaccine plan in China spurs outcry
BEIJING | China's plans to vaccinate 100 million children and come a step closer to eradicating measles has set off a popular outcry that highlights widening public distrust of the authoritarian...
View ArticleStrikes in Egypt add to pressure of protests
CAIRO | Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians went on strike Wednesday after weeks of anti-government protests cast a spotlight on corruption and the wealth amassed by those in power in...
View ArticleHIV patients out of drugs, harassed in Ukraine
KIEV, UKRAINE (AP) - AIDS drugs turned Andrei from a sickly baby into an energetic toddler, who giggles as he goes sledding in his snow-covered backyard. But the health of the 2-year-old is again at...
View ArticleChina renews push to ban smoking starting May 1
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese health authorities are renewing a push to ban smoking in indoor public places, adding more venues like hotels and restaurants as of May 1, though still excluding many...
View ArticleEfficacy of China's public smoking ban iffy
BEIJING | China's latest push to ban smoking in indoor public venues came into effect Sunday, but the vaguely defined rules were not expected to dramatically reduce the country's heavy tobacco...
View ArticleCholera surges in Haiti's Central Plateau
MIREBALAIS, HAITI (AP) - An old man with sunken cheeks is so dehydrated he must be carried down the dirt lane to a clinic where the air is thick with the odor of bleach. Minutes later, a worried father...
View ArticleCholera claiming more lives in Haiti
MIREBALAIS, HAITI — An old man with sunken cheeks is so dehydrated he must be carried down the dirt lane to a clinic where the air is thick with the odor of bleach.Minutes later, a worried father...
View ArticleUganda government squabbles while children die of mysterious disease
KAMPALA, Uganda — The Ugandan government has come under fire for its handling of a mysterious disease that has killed hundreds of children in the northern part of this impoverished East African...
View ArticleAutopsy delay clouds Peru dolphin die-off mystery
LIMA, PERU (AP) - The carcasses of dead pelicans still litter the beaches of northern Peru, even as the last of nearly 900 dolphins are cleared away.The mass die-offs have Peruvian scientists searching...
View ArticlePeru dolphin deaths
LIMA, PERU (AP) - The carcasses of dead pelicans still litter the beaches of northern Peru, even as the last of nearly 900 dolphins are cleared away.The mass die-offs have Peruvian scientists searching...
View ArticlePeru dolphin, pelican die-offs appear unrelated
LIMA, PERU (AP) - The carcasses of dead pelicans still litter the beaches of northern Peru, even as the last of nearly 900 dolphins are slowly being cleared away.The mass die-offs have Peruvian...
View ArticleBird flu kills 8-year-old girl in Indonesia
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (AP) - An 8-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Indonesia's eighth death from the disease this year.The Health Ministry said the girl, from the West Java district of Karawang, died...
View ArticleDead Danish drug user tests positive for anthrax
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (AP) - Danish authorities say an intravenous drug user who injected heroin and died has tested positive for anthrax.The Health Ministry suspects the drug was contaminated with the...
View ArticleNo new cholera deaths in Cuba
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new deaths and the outbreak appears to have...
View ArticleBird flu claims 9th victim in Indonesia this year
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (AP) - The Health Ministry says bird flu has killed a 37-year-old man in central Indonesia, marking the country's ninth fatality this year.The Ministry's website said Monday that the...
View ArticleBrazil expands its anti-AIDS program
SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's anti-AIDS program will be expanded to include at least 35,000 more people, a Health Ministry official said Wednesday.Ronaldo Hallal of the ministry's Sexually Transmitted...
View ArticleFrance confirms 2nd case of SARS-related virus
A second case of a deadly new virus related to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been reported in France, the Health Ministry confirmed Sunday.A patient who in late April shared a room at a...
View ArticleGreece: Protests as state clinics close for month
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Several thousand protesters have joined a demonstration in central Athens after the Health Ministry ordered the closure of the country's entire state-run outpatient clinic...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia reports 8 more deaths from MERS virus
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said Sunday that eight more people have died after contracting a lethal Middle East virus related to SARS as the kingdom grapples with a...
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